CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

Animalia (kingdom) » Porifera (phylum) » Demospongiae (class) » Hadromerida (order) » Placospongiidae (family)

CAAB Code:	10 024001 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Placospongia carinata (Bowerbank, 1859)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category:	10 - Porifera Sponges
Family:	10 24 Placospongiidae (sponges) - show full list
Common Name:	[a sponge]
Organism Type:	a sponge
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	10 024901 Placospongia spp.

Taxon Notes:

Several different species have been confused under this name, Australian records need to be re-examined to confirm their identity.

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:ac7eabfd-dc98-4796-ba39-2032aab91936 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:170611 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2016-05-12 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

Record source:	Hooper, J.N.A. Wiedenmayer, F., 1994, Zoological catalogue of Australia. Volume 12. Porifera. CSIRO, Melbourne
Scientific Name verified against:	Becking, L.E., 2013. Revision of the genus Placospongia (Porifera, Demospongiae, Hadromerida, Placospongiidae) in the Indo-West Pacific., ZooKeys, Vol. 298: 39-76.

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