Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report
- CAAB Code
- 11 307013 Show as JSON
- Scientific Name & Authority
- Blastomussa merleti (Wells, 1961)
- Rank
- Species
- CAAB category
- 11 - Cnidaria Jellyfish, sea anemones, corals and allies
- Family
- 11 307 Lobophylliidae (hard corals) - show full list
- Common Name
- [a stony coral]
- Organism Type
- a stony coral
- Taxon lists
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Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
- Habitat
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Marine unspecified
- Parent Codes
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11 307903
Blastomussa spp.
- Identifiers
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Australian Faunal Directory (AFD) urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:1981f0f5-791a-4ab6-b811-03729969e024
Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living AustraliaWorld Register of Marine Species urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207385
Name status: accepted Checked on: 2022-06-23
View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
- 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
- Benzoni, F., Arrigoni, R., Waheed, Z., Stefani, F., Hoeksema, B.W., 2014. Phylogenetic relationships and revision of the genus Blastomussa (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia) with description of a new species., The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Vol. 62: 358-378.