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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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CAAB Code:	22 081001 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Owenia australis   Ford & Hutchings, 2005
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 22 - Annelida Segmented worms Family: 22 81 Oweniidae (polychaete worms) - show full list Common Name: [a polychaete worm] Organism Type: a polychaete worm Synonyms: Owenia fusiformis (mis-identification) Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 22 081902     Owenia spp.

Taxon Notes:	Owenia fusiformis, originally described from the Mediterranean Sea, was previously considered to be a cosmopolitan species. Recent studies have found that material from other parts of the world previously included in O. fusiformis actually belongs to distinct regional species.
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:8ccae94c-4692-4c1f-ab0c-51b4ca710e8f Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia Cleveland J1110101 MoV 3269 WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:130544 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-05-12 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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Record source:	Australian Biological Resources Study (Houston, K. + others, editors), 2000-, Australian Faunal Directory. World Wide Web electronic publication, http: www.environment.gov.au/abrs/abif-fauna/
Scientific Name verified against:	Ford, E., Hutchings, P.A., 2005. An analysis of morphological characters of Owenia useful to distinguish species: description of three new species of Owenia (Oweniidae: Polychaeta) from Australian waters., Marine Ecology, Vol. 26: 181-196.