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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Porifera (phylum)  »  Demospongiae (class)  »  Haplosclerida (order)  »  Petrosiidae (family)

CAAB Code: 10 102012 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority
:

Xestospongia variabilis   (Ridley, 1884)

Rank: Species
CAAB category: 10 - Porifera Sponges
Family: 10 102 Petrosiidae (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 102904     Xestospongia spp.

Identifiers:
AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:feac2ee0-ab4c-488f-9fec-b944cd4debf0
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:325439
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-06-21
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
:
Van Soest, R.W.M., Hooper, J.N.A., Butler, P.J., 2020. Every sponge its own name: removing Porifera homonyms., Zootaxa, Vol. 4745(1): 1-93. . doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4745.1.1 doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4745.1.1
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