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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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CAAB Code:	23 236002 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Pinctada margaritifera   (Linnaeus, 1758)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 23 - Mollusca - non-Gastropod groups Bivalves, Cephalopods, Chitons, etc. Family: 23 236 Pteriidae (pearl oysters) - show full list Common Name (AS5300): Blacklip Pearl Oyster Common Names List: blacklip pearl oyster Organism Type: a pearl oyster Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 23 236901     Pinctada spp. Previous Codes (if any): 00 658003

Taxon Notes:	The range of this species is normally tropical, but juveniles attached to floating debris, eg pumice, are sometimes found well outside its' normal range due to drifting long distances with their substrate. See Grove (2014) Malac. Soc. Aust. Newsletter 152:10-11. This code replaces previous (interim) CAAB code 00 658003 (FISHLIST 658003).
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:6f63bc19-6b03-482a-85bc-5cbef94446e2 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia Cleveland M3040202 WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207899 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:	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.