CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report

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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Mollusca (phylum)  »  Bivalvia (class)  »  Pterioida (order)  »  Pteriidae (family)

CAAB Code: 23 236033 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority:

Vulsella ovata   Lamarck, 1819

Rank: Species
CAAB category: 23 - Mollusca - non-Gastropod groups Bivalves, Cephalopods, Chitons, etc.
Family: 23 236 Pteriidae (pearl oysters) - show full list
Common Name: [a pearl oyster]
Common Names List: sponge fingerclam
Organism Type: a pearl oyster
Synonyms: Vulsella spongiarum
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Marine unspecified
Parent Codes: 23 236907     Vulsella spp.
Previous Codes
(if any):		 23 237004
Taxon Notes:This southern Australian species has previously been mis-identified as Vulsella spongiarum, a synonym of the widespread tropical Indo-Pacific species V. minor - the latter is currently not recorded from Australian waters. See Huber, 2010.

Identifiers:
AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:d602f7f7-d9bf-4353-b745-f4af20a16e54
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:507105
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.
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