CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

Animalia (kingdom) » Cnidaria (phylum) » Cubozoa (class) » Chirodropida (order) » Chiropsalmidae (family)

CAAB Code:	11 153000 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Chiropsalmidae
Rank:	Family

CAAB category:	11 - Cnidaria Jellyfish, sea anemones, corals and allies
Family:	11 153 Chiropsalmidae (box jellyfish) - show full list
Common Name:	box jellyfish
Organism Type:	a box jellyfish
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Child Codes:	11 153901 Chirodectes spp. 11 153902 Chiropsella spp. 11 153903 Chiropsoides spp.

Taxon Notes:

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

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:0dfb13a2-b2d0-42f5-a28a-0e8c1853907a Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia

Record source:	Gershwin, L.-A., 2006. Comments on Chiropsalmus (Cnidaria: Cubozoa: Chirodropida): a preliminary revision of the Chiropsalmidae, with descriptions of two new genera and two new species., Zootaxa, Vol. 1231: 1-42.

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