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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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CAAB Code:	11 314000 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Caryophylliidae, Deltocyathiidae
Rank:	Family

CAAB category: 11 - Cnidaria Jellyfish, sea anemones, corals and allies Family: 11 314 (stony corals) - show full list Common Name: stony corals Organism Type: a stony coral Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 11 290000     Scleractinia Child Codes: 11 314941     Caryophylliidae 11 314942     Deltocyathiidae

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Taxon Notes:	This group was previously all included within the Caryophylliidae, but recent genetic work has separated the Deltocyathiidae. See Kitahara et al, 2012. 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:36b9c834-51d6-4136-85ba-9948cfba5ff3 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia ITIS 574698 View at ITIS WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135073 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2017-06-19 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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Kitahara, M.V., Cairns, S.D., Stolarski, J., Miller, D.J., 2012. Deltocyathiidae, an early-diverging family of robust corals (Anthozoa, Scleractinia)., Zoologica Scripta, Vol. 42(2): 201-212.