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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 332003 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Paralicornia sinuosa   (Canu & Bassler, 1927)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 20 - Bryozoa Bryozoans Family: 20 332 Candidae (bryozoans) - show full list Common Name: [a bryozoan] Organism Type: a bryozoan Synonyms: Scrupocellaria spatulata (mis-identification) Scrupocellaria sinuosa Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 20 332916     Paralicornia spp.

Taxon Notes:	This species was previously recorded as Scrupocellaria spatulata, but this is now regarded as a species complex, and its presence in Australian waters requires verification. See Tilbrook & Vieira, 2012.
Identifiers:	WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:469458 Name status: unaccepted    Checked on: 2016-05-12 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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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