Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report
- CAAB Code
- 11 171000 Show as JSON
- Scientific Name & Authority
- Helioporidae
- Rank
- Family
- CAAB category
- 11 - Cnidaria Jellyfish, sea anemones, corals and allies
- Family
- 11 171 Helioporidae (blue corals) - show full list
- Common Name
- blue corals
- Organism Type
- a blue coral
- Taxon lists
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Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
- Habitat
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Marine unspecified
- Child Codes
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11 171901
Heliopora 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
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Australian Faunal Directory (AFD) urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:d9fc042e-e616-464b-8499-c33f9a462ce6
Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living AustraliaWorld Register of Marine Species urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:196193
Name status: accepted Checked on: 2022-06-23
View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
- Scientific Name verified against
- Richards, Z.T., Yasuda, N., Kikuchi, T., Foster, T., Mitsuyuki, C,, Stat, M., Suyama, Y., Wilson, N.G., 2018. Integrated evidence reveals a new species in the ancient blue coral genus Heliopora (Octocorallia)., Nature Scientific Reports, Vol. 8. . doi:10.1038/s41598-018-32969-z doi:10.1038/s41598-018-32969-z