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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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CAAB Code:	11 059004 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Bicaularia tongensis   (Stechow, 1919)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 11 - Cnidaria Jellyfish, sea anemones, corals and allies Family: 11 59 Symplectoscyphidae (hydroids) - show full list Common Name: [a hydroid] Organism Type: a hydroid Synonyms: Sertularella tongensis Sertularella minuscula Sertularia stechowi Sertularia tongensis Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 11 159925     Bicaularia spp.

Taxon Notes:	This species is currently recorded from tropical to warm-temperate seas world-wide. It is probably native to the Indo-Pacific and is regarded as invasive in most other regions.
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:9f291a79-8748-4657-acea-92314c181532 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:285533 Name status: unaccepted    Checked on: 2016-05-12 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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Record source:	Watson, J.E., 2002. Hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from southern Queensland., Memoirs of Museum Victoria, Vol. 59(2): 337-354.
Scientific Name verified against:	Song, X., Lyu, M., Ruthensteiner, B., Wang, J., Gravili, C., 2019. Unexpected systematic affinities and geographic expansion of a marine alien hydroid (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa)., Systematics and Biodiversity, Vol. 17(3): 230-244. . dx.doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2019.1583690 doi:10.1080/14772000.2019.1583690