CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

Animalia (kingdom) » Cnidaria (phylum) » Anthozoa (class) » Scleractinia (order) » Dendrophylliidae (family)

CAAB Code:	11 320004 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Heteropsammia cochlea (Spengler, 1781)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category:	11 - Cnidaria Jellyfish, sea anemones, corals and allies
Family:	11 320 Dendrophylliidae (hard corals) - show full list
Common Name:	[a stony coral]
Common Names List:	coral stony coral
Organism Type:	a stony coral
Synonyms:	Heteropsammia eupsammides
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Parent Codes:	11 320909 Heteropsammia spp.

Distribution map:
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Occurrence locations [95] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records

Scientific Name Notes:

The name Heteropsammia eupsammides has been used for one morphotype of this species (see Veron, 2000)

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:7a2057d7-27bc-4bd0-87dd-d203be22ea93 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207501 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:	Cairns, S.D., 2004. The azooxanthellate Sceractinia (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) of Australia., Records of the Australian Museum, Vol. 53(3): 259-329.

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