CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

Animalia (kingdom) » Porifera (phylum) » Demospongiae (class) » Poecilosclerida (order) » Myxillidae (family)

CAAB Code:	10 077000 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Myxillidae
Rank:	Family

CAAB category:	10 - Porifera Sponges
Family:	10 77 Myxillidae (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 077901 Ectyonopsis spp. 10 077902 Hymenancora spp. 10 077903 Myxilla spp. 10 077904 Psammochela spp. 10 077905 Stelodoryx spp.

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Occurrence locations [2] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records

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:ae637a71-1d27-4cd6-bcaf-b34b7f75f233 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131658 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2017-09-08 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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