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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report
Animalia (kingdom) » Bryozoa (phylum) » Gymnolaemata (class) » Cheilostomatida (order) » Candidae (family)
| CAAB Code: | 20 332002 |
| Scientific Name and Authority: | Scrupocaberea maderensis (Busk, 1860) |
| CAAB category: | 20 - Bryozoa Bryozoans | |
| Family: | 20 332 Candidae (bryozoans) - show full list | |
| Common Name: | [a bryozoan] | |
| Organism Type: | a bryozoan | |
| Synonyms: | Scrupocellaria maderensis | |
| Taxon lists: |
Current Australian list:
 Commercial species list:  Standard Fish Names List: | |
| Regions: |
Australia (inc. subantarctic territories) New Zealand (inc. subantarctic territories) South Pacific (Fiji etc.) Tropical Indo-West Pacific Indian Ocean (non coastal) | |
| Habitat: |
Marine unspecified | |
| Parent Codes: |
20 332917
Scrupocaberea spp. |
| Taxon Notes: | Originally described from Europe, this species has been recorded almost worldwide in tropical to warm temperate waters. However, there are slight differences in material from different areas and it is highly likely that more than one species is currently included under this name. | ||||
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| Record source: | Ryland, J.S. Hayward, P.J., 1992. Bryozoa from Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef., Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Vol. 32(1): 223-301. |
| Scientific Name verified against: | Vieira, L.M. Spencer Jones, M.E. Winston, J.E. Migotto, A.E. Marques, A.C., 2014. Evidence for polyphyly of the genus Scrupocellaria (Bryozoa: Candidae) based on a phylogenetic analysis of morphological characters., PLOS One, Vol. 9(4): 1-21. . doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0095296. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0095296 |