CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

Animalia (kingdom) » Cnidaria (phylum) » Scyphozoa (class) » Rhizostomeae (order) » Mastigiidae (family)

CAAB Code:	11 140902 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Mastigias spp.
Rank:	Genus

CAAB category:	11 - Cnidaria Jellyfish, sea anemones, corals and allies
Family:	11 140 Mastigiidae (jellyfish) - show full list
Common Name:	[a jellyfish]
Organism Type:	a jellyfish
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	11 140000 Mastigiidae
Child Codes:	11 140003 Mastigias andersoni

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:dac71b55-b8a2-47a9-bf82-b1c3c5ee7139 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206018 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:	De Souza, M.R., Dawson, M.N., 2018. Redescription of Mastigias papua (Scyphozoa, Rhyizostomeae) with designation of a neotype and recognition of two additional species., Zootaxa, Vol. 4457(4): 520-536. . doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4457.4.2 doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4457.4.2

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