CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report

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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.
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.
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