CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

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

CAAB Code:	10 029020 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Xenospongia patelliformis Gray, 1858
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: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	10 029907 Xenospongia spp.

Distribution map:
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Occurrence locations [92] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:3334981d-ee8a-415d-9e34-fbf1bb9eec1b Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:171012 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:	Sutcliffe, P.R., Hooper, J.N.A., Pitcher, C.R., 2010. The most common sponges on the Great Barrier Reef seabed, Australia, include species new to science (Phylum Porifera)., Zootaxa, Vol. 2616: 1-30.

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