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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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CAAB Code:	22 096093 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Spiophanes bombyx   (Claparède, 1870)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 22 - Annelida Segmented worms Family: 22 96 Spionidae (polychaete worms) - show full list Common Name: [a polychaete worm] Organism Type: a polychaete worm Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Special purpose listing - see taxon notes Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 22 096922     Spiophanes spp.

Taxon Notes:	Originally described from the Mediterranean, and widely recorded from the North Atlantic, North Sea, and Northeast Pacific. Previous records of this species from Australian waters are incorrect, based on mis-identifications (see Meißner & Hutchings 2003).
Identifiers:	MoV 1131 WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131187 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:	Meißner, K., Hutchings, P.A., 2003. Spiophanes species (Polychaeta: Spionidae) from eastern Australia - with descriptions of new species, new records and an emended generic diagnosis., Records of the Australian Museum, Vol. 55(2): 117-140.
Scientific Name verified against:	WoRMS, WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species. . Available from http: www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.