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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Porifera (phylum)  »  Demospongiae (class)  »  Lithistida (order)  »  Theonellidae (family)

CAAB Code:	10 040000 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Theonellidae
Rank:	Family

CAAB category: 10 - Porifera Sponges Family: 10 40 Theonellidae (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 Parent Codes: 10 033000     Lithistida Child Codes: 10 040901     Discodermia spp. 10 040902     Manihinea spp. 10 040903     Theonella spp.

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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:984b051a-5ce2-4cda-8bfd-f8f5e89bf35d Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131682 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2022-06-23 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:	Hall, K.A., Ekins, M.G., Hooper, J.N.A., 2014. Two new desma-less species of Theonella Gray, 1868 (Demospongiae: Astrophorida: Theonellidae), from the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, and a re-evaluation of one species previously assigned to Dercitus Gray, 1867., Zootaxa, Vol. 3814(4): 451-477.