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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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CAAB Code:	23 220913 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Xenostrobus spp.
Rank:	Genus

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: Limnoperna spp. Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Estuarine Parent Codes: 23 220000     Mytilidae Child Codes: 23 220012     Xenostrobus inconstans 23 220089     Xenostrobus neozelanicus 23 220013     Xenostrobus pulex 23 220014     Xenostrobus securis

Taxon Notes:	Australian and New Zealand species of this genus have been placed in Limnoperna by some authors, but recent genetic work has shown that Xenostrobus and Limnoperna are distinct genera. See Colgan & da Costa, 2013.
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:1009d845-0be8-4b20-bdfe-a37ac19c86d5 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia

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Record source:	Beu, A.G., 2006. Marine Mollusca of oxygen isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 2. Biostratigraphically useful and new Pliocene to Recent bivalves., Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand., Vol. 36(4): 151-338.
Scientific Name verified against:	Colgan, D.J., da Costa, P., 2013. Invasive and non-invasive lineages in Xenostrobus (Bivalvia: Mytilidae)., Molluscan Research, Vol. 33(4): 272-280.