CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

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CAAB Code:	10 217013 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Heteropia glomerosa (Bowerbank, 1873)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category:	10 - Porifera Sponges
Family:	10 217 Heteropiidae (calcareous sponges) - show full list
Common Name:	[a sponge]
Organism Type:	a sponge
Synonyms:	Sycettusa glomerosa
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	10 217902 Heteropia spp.

Taxon Notes:

Originally described from South Africa, this species is widespread in the Indo-Pacific, and has recently been recorded as invasive in Brazil.

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:7d9a4746-3d05-4951-983d-bb3da615b282 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:164455 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2016-05-11 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

Record source:	Hooper, J.N.A. Wiedenmayer, F., 1994, Zoological catalogue of Australia. Volume 12. Porifera. CSIRO, Melbourne
Scientific Name verified against:	Klautau, M., Cóndor-Luján, B., Azevedo, F., Leocorny, P., Rocha Brandã o, F.D., Cavalcanti, F.F., 2020. Heteropia glomerosa (Bowerbank, 1873) (Porifera, Calcarea, Calcaronea), a new alien species in the Atlantic., Systematics and Biodiversity, Vol. 18(4): 362-376. . dx.doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2020.1758826 doi:10.1080/14772000.2020.1758826

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