CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

Animalia (kingdom) » Cnidaria (phylum) » Anthozoa (class) » Zoanthidea (order) » Sphenopidae (family)

CAAB Code:	11 287001 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Sphenopus marsupialis (Gmelin, 1827)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category:	11 - Cnidaria Jellyfish, sea anemones, corals and allies
Family:	11 287 Sphenopidae (zoanthid anemones) - show full list
Common Name:	[a zoanthid anemone]
Organism Type:	a zoanthid anemone
Synonyms:	Sphaenopus marsupialis
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	11 287902 Sphenopus spp.

Distribution map:
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Occurrence locations [443] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:d2883f70-1f6b-4529-9130-0437239e6c00 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
Cleveland	E4020101
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:291061 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2016-05-11 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

Record source:	Burnett, W.J., Benzie, J.A.H., Beardmore, J.A., Ryland, J.S., 1997. Zoanthids (Anthozoa, Hexacorallia) from the Great Barrier Reef and Teorres Strait, Australia: systematics, evolution and a key to species., Coral Reefs, Vol. 16: 55-68.
Scientific Name verified against:	Reimer, J.D., Poliseno, A., Hoeksema, B.W., 2014. Shallow-water zoantharians (Cnidaria, Hexacorallia) from the Central Indo-Pacific., ZooKeys, Vol. 444: 1-57.

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