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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Annelida (phylum)  »  Polychaeta (class)  »  Phyllodocida (order)  »  Nereididae (family)

CAAB Code:	22 056084 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Platynereis australis   (Schmarda, 1861)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 22 - Annelida Segmented worms Family: 22 56 Nereididae (polychaete worms) - show full list Common Name: [a polychaete worm] Organism Type: a polychaete worm Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 22 056918     Platynereis spp.

Taxon Notes:	This species was described from New Zealand, and although there are records of this species from Australia and other southern hemisphere areas, any records from outside of New Zealand need to be re-examined to determine their true identity, as it is very likely that these represent other, possibly new, species.
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:8cd395a1-1a80-46cd-aa1e-4922afa9cdec Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia MoV 1075 WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:334555 Name status: accepted    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:	Australian Biological Resources Study (Houston, K. + others, editors), 2000-, Australian Faunal Directory. World Wide Web electronic publication, http: www.environment.gov.au/abrs/abif-fauna/
Scientific Name verified against:	Read, G.B., 2007. Taxonomy of sympatric New Zealand species of Platynereis, with description of three new species additional to P. australis (Schmarda) (Annelida: Polychaeta: Nereididae)., Zootaxa, Vol. 1558: 1-28.