CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

Animalia (kingdom) » Mollusca (phylum) » Bivalvia (class) » Mytiloida (order) » Mytilidae (family)

CAAB Code:	23 220015 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Arcuatula senhousia (Benson in Cantor, 1842)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category:	23 - Mollusca - non-Gastropod groups Bivalves, Cephalopods, Chitons, etc.
Family:	23 220 Mytilidae (mussels) - show full list
Common Name:	Asian mussel
Common Names List:	bag mussel Senhouse's mussel Senhouse horse mussel
Organism Type:	a mussel
Synonyms:	Brachidontes senhousia Modiolus senhousia Musculus senhousia Musculista senhousia
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified Estuarine
Parent Codes:	23 220903 Arcuatula spp.

Taxon Notes:

This species is native to the north-western Pacific/eastern Indian Ocean, and was accidentally introduced to Australian and New Zealand waters.

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:e9b81d5d-ea0a-45bb-b315-aa2b7c9b457b Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:505946 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-01-11 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

Record source:	Lamprell, K. Healy, J., 1998, Bivalves of Australia. Volume 2. Backhuys, Leiden
Scientific Name verified against:	Huber, M., 2010, Compendium of Bivalves. ConchBooks, Hackenheim, Germany 901pp.

CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report