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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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CAAB Code:	11 305907 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Dipsastraea spp.
Rank:	Genus

CAAB category: 11 - Cnidaria Jellyfish, sea anemones, corals and allies Family: 11 305 Merulinidae (hard corals) - show full list Common Name: [a stony coral] Organism Type: a stony coral Synonyms: Favia spp. Barabattoia spp. Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 11 305000     Merulinidae Child Codes: 11 305002     Dipsastraea amicorum 11 305023     Dipsastraea danai 11 305119     Dipsastraea faviaformis 11 305024     Dipsastraea favus 11 305025     Dipsastraea helianthoides 11 305003     Dipsastraea laddi 11 305026     Dipsastraea laxa 11 305027     Dipsastraea lizardensis 11 305028     Dipsastraea maritima 11 305029     Dipsastraea marshae 11 305030     Dipsastraea matthaii 11 305117     Dipsastraea mirabilis 11 305032     Dipsastraea pallida 11 305033     Dipsastraea rosaria 11 305034     Dipsastraea rotumana 11 305036     Dipsastraea speciosa 11 305038     Dipsastraea truncata 11 305039     Dipsastraea veroni 11 305040     Dipsastraea vietnamensis Previous Codes (if any): 11 305902

Taxon Notes:	Members of this genus were previously included in the genus Favia, which is now regarded as restricted to the Atlantic. See Budd et al, 2012 (Zool. J. .Linn. Soc. 166(3): 465-529). 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:345d5c6d-d54a-4de7-a1f1-798936b16e0b Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia

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Record source:	Veron, J. E. H., 2000 Veron, J. E. H., Corals of the World. Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, Qld. 3 Vols.
Scientific Name verified against:	Huang, D., Benzoni, F., Fukami, H., Knowlton, N., Smith, N.D., Budd, A.F., 2014. Taxonomic classification of the reef coral families Merulinidae, Montastraeidae and Diploastraeidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia)., Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Vol. 171: 277-355.