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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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CAAB Code:	11 132004 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Pelagia noctiluca   (Forsskål, 1775)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 11 - Cnidaria Jellyfish, sea anemones, corals and allies Family: 11 132 Pelagiidae (jellyfish) - show full list Common Name: mauve stinger Common Names List: purple stinger Organism Type: a jellyfish Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 11 132902     Pelagia spp.

Taxon Notes:	Originally described from the North Atlantic.
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:428b7bd3-7786-4ae8-a92a-f49c9d45c900 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia ITIS 51661 View at ITIS WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135305 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2022-06-23 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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Record source:	Gershwin, L.-A., Zeidler, W., 2008. Some new and previously unrecorded Scyphomedusae (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa) from southern Australian coastal waters., Zootaxa, Vol. 1744: 1-18.
Scientific Name verified against:	WoRMS, WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species. . Available from http: www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.