Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report
- CAAB Code
- 24 401002 Show as JSON
- Scientific Name & Authority
- Limacina rangii (d'Orbigny, 1835)
- Rank
- Species
- CAAB category
- 24 - Mollusca - Gastropoda Gastropods (univalve molluscs, slugs, snails etc.)
- Family
- 24 401 Limacinidae (shelled pteropods) - show full list
- Common Name
- [a shelled pteropod]
- Organism Type
- a shelled pteropod
- Synonyms
- Limacina helicina (mis-identification) Limacina rangi
- Taxon lists
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Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
- Habitat
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Marine unspecified
Pelagic, Epipelagic (0-200m, Oceanic) - Parent Codes
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24 401901
Limacina spp.
- Taxon Notes
- Previously known as Limacina helicina, but the latter is now regarded as restricted to the northern hemisphere based on genetic work.
- Identifiers
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World Register of Marine Species urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140223
View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
- Record source
- Burn, R., 2006. A checklist and bibliography of the Opisthobranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Victoria and the Bass Strait area, south-eastern Australia., Museum Victoria Science Reports, Vol. 10: 1-42.
- Scientific Name verified against
- Janssen, A.W., Bush, S.L., Bednaršek, N., 2019. The shelled pteropods of the northeast Pacific Ocean (Mollusca: Heterobranchia, Pteropoda)., Zoosymposia, Vol. 13: 305-346. . dx.doi.org/10.11646/zoosymposia.13.1.22 doi:10.11646/zoosymposia.13.1.22