Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report
- CAAB Code
- 11 159006 Show as JSON
- Scientific Name & Authority
- Alternatipathes alternata (Brook, 1889)
- Rank
- Species
- CAAB category
- 11 - Cnidaria Jellyfish, sea anemones, corals and allies
- Family
- 11 159 Schizopathidae (black corals) - show full list
- Common Name
- [a black coral]
- Organism Type
- a black coral
- Synonyms
- Bathypathes alternata
- Taxon lists
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Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
- Habitat
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Marine unspecified
- Parent Codes
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11 159905
Alternatipathes spp.
- Identifiers
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World Register of Marine Species urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:103319
Name status: accepted Checked on: 2016-05-10
View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
- Record source
- Cairns, S.D., Gershwin, L.-A., Brook, F.J., Pugh, P., Dawson, E.W., Ocaña, O., Vervoort, W., Williams, G., Watson, J.E., Opresko, D.M., Schuchert, P., Hine, P.M., Gordon, D.P., Campbell, H.J., Wright, A.J., Sánchez, J.A., Fautin, D.G., 2009. Phylum Cnidaria. In: Gordon, D.P., Editor, New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One. Kingdom Animalia. Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia: 59-101. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, NZ 566pp.
- Scientific Name verified against
- Molodtsova, T.N., Opresko, D.M., 2017. Black corals (Anthozoa: Antipatharia) of the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone., Marine Biodiversity, Vol. 47: 349-365. . DOI 10.1007/s12526-017-0659-6 doi:10.1007/s12526-017-0659-6