CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

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

CAAB Code:	23 220026 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Modiolatus nitidus (Reeve, 1857)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category:	23 - Mollusca - non-Gastropod groups Bivalves, Cephalopods, Chitons, etc.
Family:	23 220 Mytilidae (mussels) - show full list
Common Name:	[a mussel]
Organism Type:	a mussel
Synonyms:	Modiolus hanleyi Modiolatus hanleyi (mis-identification)
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	23 220929 Modiolatus spp.

Taxon Notes:

Australian material of this species has previously been mis-identified as the Japanese species Modiolatus hanleyi. See Huber, 2010.

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:6cfe2038-c3fd-4b22-b3d0-4da85f94df08 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
Cleveland	M3040108
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:506102 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2017-02-11 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.

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