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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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

CAAB Code:	10 029001 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Tethya aurantium   (Pallas, 1766)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 10 - Porifera Sponges Family: 10 29 Tethyidae (ball sponges) - show full list Common Name: [a sponge] Organism Type: a sponge Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Special purpose listing - see taxon notes Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 10 029905     Tethya spp.

Taxon Notes:	This species is now regarded as restricted to the Mediterranean, Azores and NE Atlantic. Any records of this species from New Zealand and the Australasian region refer to other species of Tethya, and need to be re-examined to determine their true identity.
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:84c62a3b-e561-4bc5-8745-69509d00f8bd Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:134311 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:	Hooper, J.N.A. Wiedenmayer, F., 1994, Zoological catalogue of Australia. Volume 12. Porifera. CSIRO, Melbourne
Scientific Name verified against:	Sarà, M., Sarà, A., 2004. A revision of Australian and New Zealand Tethya (Porifera: Demospongiae) with a preliminary analysis of species-groupings., Invertebrate Systematics, Vol. 18: 117-156.