CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report

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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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

CAAB Code: 10 106901 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority:

Metania spp.  

Rank: Genus
CAAB category: 10 - Porifera Sponges
Family: 10 106 Metaniidae (freshwater sponges) - show full list
Common Name: [a freshwater sponge]
Organism Type: a freshwater sponge
Synonyms: Drulia spp.
Houssayella spp.
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Marine unspecified
Parent Codes: 10 106000     Metaniidae
Child Codes: 10 106001     Metania ovogemmata
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:b673fe71-cd0c-4169-80c9-7763afb74fa6
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
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Scientific Name
verified against:		 Castello-Branco, C., Calor, A.R., Menegola, C., 2015. Microscleres and gemmoscleres as phylogenetic signals in Spongillida: phylogeny and biogeography of the genus Metania Gray, 1867 (Porifera, Metaniidae)., Invertebrate Systematics, Vol. 29: 369-385. . dx.doi.org/10.1071/IS14060 doi:10.1071/IS14060
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