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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Bryozoa (phylum)  »  Gymnolaemata (class)  »  Ctenostomatida (order)  »  Vesiculariidae (family)

CAAB Code:	20 231023 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Amathia similis   Gordon & Spencer-Jones, 2013
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 20 - Bryozoa Bryozoans Family: 20 231 Vesiculariidae (bryozoans) - show full list Common Name: [a bryozoan] Organism Type: a bryozoan Synonyms: Amathia distans (mis-identification) Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Species not on current Australian list, but occuring in adjacent region: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 20 231901     Amathia spp.

Taxon Notes:	This species was previously confused with the introduced species Amathia distans, however, even though it is distinct from the latter, it is known only from port areas and is unlikely to be native to New Zealand.
Identifiers:	WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:730617 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-05-10 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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Record source and Scientific Name verified against:

Gordon, D.P., Spencer-Jones, M., 2013. The amathiiform Ctenostomata (phylum Bryozoa) of New Zealand - including four new species, two of them of probable alien origin., Zootaxa, Vol. 3647(1): 75-95.