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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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CAAB Code:	10 120003 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Aplysilla rosea   (Barrois, 1876)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 10 - Porifera Sponges Family: 10 120 Darwinellidae (sponges) - show full list Common Name: [a sponge] Organism Type: a sponge Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Special purpose listing - see taxon notes Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 10 120901     Aplysilla spp.

Taxon Notes:	This Atlantic species has previously been recorded from southern Australia and New Zealand, but this was a mis-identification of Dendrilla rosea, and Aplysilla rosea is not found in the Indo-Paciic region at all. Any records of this species from this region actually refer to Dendrilla rosea.
Identifiers:	WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132296 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-05-11 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:	WoRMS, WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species. . Available from http: www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.