CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

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

CAAB Code:	10 029000 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Tethyidae
Rank:	Family

CAAB category:	10 - Porifera Sponges
Family:	10 29 Tethyidae (ball sponges) - show full list
Common Name:	sponges
Organism Type:	a sponge
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Child Codes:	10 029901 Anthotethya spp. 10 029902 Laxotethya spp. 10 029903 Oxytethya spp. 10 029904 Stellitethya spp. 10 029905 Tethya spp. 10 029906 Tethyastra spp. 10 029908 Tethycometes spp. 10 029907 Xenospongia spp.

Taxon Notes:

This code is provided for use when identification of a specimen to family level is sufficient, or when no further detail is available.

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:dd2b6924-589f-4258-861c-8ba46fdb5b0e Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131677 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2022-06-23 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:	WoRMS, WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species. . Available from http: www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.

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