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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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CAAB Code:	11 193000 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Paragorgiidae, Sibogagorgiidae
Rank:	Family

CAAB category: 11 - Cnidaria Jellyfish, sea anemones, corals and allies Family: 11 193 (octocorals) - show full list Common Name: octocorals Organism Type: an octocoral Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Child Codes: 11 193911     Paragorgiidae 11 193912     Sibogagorgiidae

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Taxon Notes:	Recent genetic work has shown that these are separate families. 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:7bfc605b-14ea-4a5f-99f0-5b31958fc825 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:123084 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2022-08-24 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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Figueroa, D.F., Baco, A.R., 2015. Octocoral mitochondrial genomes provide insights into the phylogenetic history of gene order rearrangements, order reversals, and cnidarian phylogenetics., Genome Biology and Evolution, Vol. 7(1): 391-409. . doi:10.1093/gbe/evu286 doi:10.1093/gbe/evu286