CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report

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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Annelida (phylum)  »  Polychaeta (class)  »  Opheliidae (family)

CAAB Code: 22 005000 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority:

Opheliidae  

Rank: Family
CAAB category: 22 - Annelida Segmented worms
Family: 22 5 Opheliidae (polychaete worms) - show full list
Common Name: polychaete worms
Organism Type: a polychaete worm
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Marine unspecified
Child Codes: 22 005908     Ammotrypanella spp.
22 005901     Armandia spp.
22 005904     Ophelia spp.
22 005905     Ophelina spp.
22 005906     Polyophthalmus spp.
22 005902     Thoracophelia spp.
 Distribution map:
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Occurrence locations [1] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records
Taxon Notes:This code is provided for use when identification of a specimen to family level is sufficient, or when no further detail is available.

Identifiers:
AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:1c48f735-bcf0-4d7a-a691-60c037c5bbbb
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
Cleveland J1120100
WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:924
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2022-08-24
View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
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Scientific Name
verified against:		 Law, C.J., Dorgan, K.M., Rouse, G.W., 2014. Relating divergence in polychaete musculature to different burrowing behaviours: A study using Opheliidae (Annnelida)., Journal of Morphology, Vol. 275: 548-571.
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