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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Annelida (phylum)  »  Polychaeta (class)  »  Terebellida (order)  »  Sternaspidae (family)

CAAB Code:	22 119007 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Sternaspis scutata   (Ranzani, 1817)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 22 - Annelida Segmented worms Family: 22 119 Sternaspidae (polychaete worms) - show full list Common Name: [a polychaete worm] Organism Type: a polychaete worm Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Species not on current Australian list, but occuring in adjacent region: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 22 119901     Sternaspis spp.

Taxon Notes:	Originally described from the Mediterranean, and also recorded widely in the North Atlantic and North Sea. Numerous records in most temperate to tropical seas worldwide. It is highly likely that this is a species complex, also that some records from outside of the North Atlantic/Mediterranean region are mis-identifications and/or the result of accidental introductions.
Scientific Name Notes:	Records of this species from Australia actually refer to Sternaspis spinosa, and records from New Zealand need to be verified.
Identifiers:	WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131242 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2020-10-14 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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Record source:	Glasby, C.J., Read, G.B., Lee, K.E., Blakemore, R.J., Fraser, P.M., Pinder, A.M., Erséus, C., Moser, W.E., Burreson, E.M., Govedich, F.R., Davies, R.W., Dawson, E.W., 2009. Phylum Annelida. In: Gordon, D.P., Editor, New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One. Kingdom Animalia. Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia: 312-358. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, NZ 566pp.
Scientific Name verified against:	WoRMS, WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species. . Available from http: www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.