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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Porifera (phylum)  »  Demospongiae (class)  »  Halichondrida (order)  »  Desmoxyidae (family)

CAAB Code:	10 091901 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Desmoxya spp.
Rank:	Genus

CAAB category: 10 - Porifera Sponges Family: 10 91 Desmoxyidae (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 091913     Desmoxyidae Child Codes: 10 091001     Desmoxya lunata

Taxon Notes:	This code is provided for use when identification of a specimen to this level is sufficient, or when no further detail is available.
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:087bbc05-b8d9-4f3c-973e-0a04379990b9 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia

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Record source:	Van Soest, R.W.M., Hooper, J.N.A., 2005. Resurrection of Desmoxya (Porifera: Halichondrida), with description of a new species from Rockall Bank bathyal coral reefs, North Atlantic., Journal of the Marine Biological Association UK, Vol. 85: 1367-1371.
Scientific Name verified against:	Morrow, C., Cárdenas, P., Boury-Esnault, N., Picton, B., McCormack, G., Van Soest, R., Collins, A., Redmond, N., Maggs, C., Sigwart, J., Allcock, L.A., 2019. Integrating morphological and molecular taxonomy with the revised concept of Stelligeridae (Porifera: Demospongiae)., Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Vol. 187: 31-81.