CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

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CAAB Code:	11 219000 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Pennatulidae
Rank:	Family

CAAB category:	11 - Cnidaria Jellyfish, sea anemones, corals and allies
Family:	11 219 Pennatulidae (seapens) - show full list
Common Name:	sea pens
Organism Type:	a sea pen
Synonyms:	Pteroeididae
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	11 208000 Pennatulacea
Child Codes:	11 219903 Gyrophyllum spp. 11 219902 Pennatula spp. 11 219901 Pteroeides spp. 11 219905 Ptilella spp. 11 219904 Sarcoptilus spp.
Previous Codes (if any):	11 217000

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Occurrence locations [12] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records

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:4f6b73c1-38fc-46cf-a0cb-8cfba5bb94dc Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia

Record source:	Williams, G.C., 1995. The enigmatic sea pen genus Gyrophyllum - a phylogenetic reassessment and description of G. sibogae from Tasmanian waters (Coelenterata: Octocorallia)., Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Vol. 48(15): 315-328.
Scientific Name verified against:	WoRMS, WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species. . Available from http: www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.

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