CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

Animalia (kingdom) » Cnidaria (phylum) » Anthozoa (class) » Alcyonacea (order) » Primnoidae (family)

CAAB Code:	11 197913 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Perissogorgia spp.
Rank:	Genus

CAAB category:	11 - Cnidaria Jellyfish, sea anemones, corals and allies
Family:	11 197 Primnoidae (octocorals) - show full list
Common Name:	[an octocoral]
Organism Type:	an octocoral
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	11 197000 Primnoidae
Child Codes:	11 197007 Perissogorgia colossus 11 197081 Perissogorgia rigida 11 197080 Perissogorgia vitrea

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:e56fc873-5c56-46c7-8b6e-30effa795b37 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia

Scientific Name verified against:	Cairns, S.D., 2016. The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: New Zealand Primnoidae (Anthozoa: Alcyonacea) Part 2. Primnoella, Callozostron, Metafannyella, Callogorgia, Fanellia and other genera., NIWA Biodiversity Memoir, Vol. 129: 1-131.

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