CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

Animalia (kingdom) » Porifera (phylum) » Calcarea (class) » Leucosolenida (order) » Achramorphidae (family)

CAAB Code:	10 220000 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Achramorphidae
Rank:	Family

CAAB category:	10 - Porifera Sponges
Family:	10 220 Achramorphidae (calcareous sponges) - show full list
Common Name:	calcareous sponges
Organism Type:	a calcareous sponge
Synonyms:	Staurorrhaphidae
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Child Codes:	10 220901 Achramorpha spp. 10 220902 Megapogon spp.

Taxon Notes:

This code is provided for use when identification of a specimen to family level is sufficient, or when no further detail is available.

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:e405ff21-4414-47c2-8cee-2d56491ba858 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia

Record source:	Hooper, J.N.A. Wiedenmayer, F., 1994, Zoological catalogue of Australia. Volume 12. Porifera. CSIRO, Melbourne
Scientific Name verified against:	Alvizu, A., Xavier, J.R., Rapp, H.T., 2019. Description of new chiactine-bearing sponges provides insights into the higher classification of Calcaronea (Porifera: Calcarea)., Zootaxa, Vol. 4615(2): 201-251. . doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4615.2.1 doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4615.2.1

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