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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Porifera (phylum)  »  Hexactinellida (class)  »  Lyssacinosida (order)  »  Rossellidae (family)

CAAB Code:	10 323015 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Rosella levis   (Kirkpatrick, 1907)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 10 - Porifera Sponges Family: 10 323 Rossellidae (glass sponges) - show full list Common Name: [a glass sponge] Organism Type: a glass sponge Synonyms: Rosella nuda (mis-identification) Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Species not on current Australian list, but occuring in subantarctic/Antarctic waters: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified

Taxon Notes:	This species has previously been confused with Rosella nuda, but is a distinct species. See Göcke & Janussen, 2013.
Identifiers:	WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:172096 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-06-21 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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Record source and Scientific Name verified against:

Göcke, C., Janussen, D., 2013. Hexactinellida of the genus Rosella, of ANT XXIV/2 (SYSTCO I) Expedition - Antarctic Eastern Weddell Sea., Zootaxa, Vol. 3692(1): 102-122.