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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Porifera (phylum)  »  Hexactinellida (class)  »  Hexactinosida (order)  »  Auloplacidae (family)

CAAB Code:	10 307000 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Auloplacidae
Rank:	Family

CAAB category: 10 - Porifera Sponges Family: 10 307 Auloplacidae (glass sponges) - show full list Common Name: glass sponges Organism Type: a glass sponge Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Species not on current Australian list, but occuring in adjacent region: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Child Codes: 10 307901     Auloplax 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.

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Record source:

Reiswig, H.M., Kelly, M., 2011. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Hexasterophoran glass sponges of New Zealand (Porifera: Hexactinellida: Hexasterophora): Orders Hexactinosida, Aulocalycoida and Lychniscopsida., NIWA Biodiversity Memoir, Vol. 124: 1-176.