CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

Animalia (kingdom) » Cnidaria (phylum) » Anthozoa (class) » Actiniaria (order) » Actiniidae (family)

CAAB Code:	11 232000 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Actiniidae
Rank:	Family

CAAB category:	11 - Cnidaria Jellyfish, sea anemones, corals and allies
Family:	11 232 Actiniidae (sea anemones) - show full list
Common Name:	sea anemones
Organism Type:	a sea anemone
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	11 229000 Actiniaria
Child Codes:	11 232901 Actinia spp. 11 232902 Anthopleura spp. 11 232903 Aulactinia spp. 11 232904 Bolocera spp. 11 232921 Bunodactis spp. 11 232912 Condylactis spp. 11 232905 Dofleinia spp. 11 232906 Entacmaea spp. 11 232907 Epiactis spp. 11 232908 Glyphoperidium spp. 11 232909 Gyractis spp. 11 232917 Isactinia spp. 11 232910 Isanemonia spp. 11 232920 Isantheopsis spp. 11 232911 Isosicyonis spp. 11 232913 Oulactis spp. 11 232918 Parantheopsis spp. 11 232914 Phlyctenactis spp. 11 232915 Phlyctenanthus spp. 11 232919 Phymactis spp. 11 232916 Stylobates spp.

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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:cbbeeead-e235-4719-b1e9-72ab6e90d4f3 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:100653 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:	Fautin, D.G., 2016. Catalog to families, genera, and species of orders Actiniaria and Corallimorpharia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa)., Zootaxa, Vol. 4145(1): 1-449.

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