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)  »  Dictyoceratida (order)  »  Dysideidae (family)

CAAB Code: 10 119033 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority:

Paraspongia laxa   Carter, 1885

Rank: Species
CAAB category: 10 - Porifera Sponges
Family: 10 119 Dysideidae (sponges) - show full list
Common Name: [a sponge]
Organism Type: a sponge
Synonyms: Paraspongia paraspongia
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Marine unspecified
Parent Codes: 10 119904     Paraspongia spp.
Previous Codes
(if any):		 10 114058
Taxon Notes:This taxon is currently regarded as a species inquirenda or incertae sedis by most authorities, and its status needs to be clarified. Has been placed in several different families in the past, including Spongiidae.

Identifiers:
AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.name:84b227c0-14ba-490f-93e6-6277cb40dd6a
Name status: synonym    Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:164990
Name status: taxon inquirendum    Checked on: 2016-05-12
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:		 World Porifera Database.
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