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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report
Animalia (kingdom) » Porifera (phylum) » Demospongiae (class) » Dictyoceratida (order) » Dysideidae (family)
CAAB Code: | 10 119006 |
Scientific Name and Authority: | Dysidea fragilis (Montagu, 1818) |
Rank: | Species |
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Taxon Notes: | This species was originally described from northern Europe. It is very likely that records outside of the north Atlantic/Mediterranean area, including those from New Zealand and the Australasian region, refer to other species, and these need to be re-examined to determined their true identity. | ||||
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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: | McCormack, S.P., Kelly, M., Battershill, C.N., 2020. Description of two new species of Dysidea (Porifera, Demospongiae, Dictyoceratida, Dysideidae) from Tauranga Harbour, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand., Zootaxa, Vol. 4780(3): 523-542. . doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4780.3.5 doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4780.3.5 |