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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 029020 |
Scientific Name and Authority: | Xenospongia patelliformis Gray, 1858 |
CAAB category: | 10 - Porifera Sponges |
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Family: | 10 29 Tethyidae (ball sponges) - show full list | |
Common Name: | [a sponge] | |
Organism Type: | a sponge | |
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Habitat: |
Marine unspecified | |
Parent Codes: |
10 029907
Xenospongia spp. |
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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: | 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. |