CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

Animalia (kingdom) » Cnidaria (phylum) » Hydrozoa (class) » Leptothecata (order) » Laodiceidae (family)

CAAB Code:	11 052903 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Melicertissa spp.
Rank:	Genus

CAAB category:	11 - Cnidaria Jellyfish, sea anemones, corals and allies
Family:	11 52 Laodiceidae (hydroids) - show full list
Common Name:	[a hydromedusa]
Organism Type:	a hydromedusa
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	11 052000 Laodiceidae
Child Codes:	11 052005 Melicertissa antrichardsoni 11 052006 Melicertissa orientalis

Taxon Notes:

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

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:ac593b75-8b98-4392-a3c0-90e603bcb66e Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:117142 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2018-11-22 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

Scientific Name verified against:	Uribe-Palomino, J., Pausina, S., Gershwin, L.-A., 2018. Two new species of Hydromedusae from Queensland, Australia (Hydrozoa, Leptothecata)., ZooKeys, Vol. 783: 17-36. . doi:10.3897/zookeys.783.26862 doi:10.3897/zookeys.783.26862

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