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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Annelida (phylum)  »  Polychaeta (class)  »  Sabellida (order)  »  Oweniidae (family)

CAAB Code: 22 081001 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority
:

Owenia australis   Ford & Hutchings, 2005

Rank: Species
CAAB category: 22 - Annelida Segmented worms
Family: 22 81 Oweniidae (polychaete worms) - show full list
Common Name: [a polychaete worm]
Organism Type: a polychaete worm
Synonyms: Owenia fusiformis (mis-identification)
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Marine unspecified
Parent Codes: 22 081902     Owenia spp.
Taxon Notes:Owenia fusiformis, originally described from the Mediterranean Sea, was previously considered to be a cosmopolitan species. Recent studies have found that material from other parts of the world previously included in O. fusiformis actually belongs to distinct regional species.

Identifiers:
AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:8ccae94c-4692-4c1f-ab0c-51b4ca710e8f
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
Cleveland J1110101
MoV 3269
WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:130544
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
:
Ford, E., Hutchings, P.A., 2005. An analysis of morphological characters of Owenia useful to distinguish species: description of three new species of Owenia (Oweniidae: Polychaeta) from Australian waters., Marine Ecology, Vol. 26: 181-196.
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