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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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CAAB Code:	23 237000 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Malleidae
Rank:	Family

CAAB category: 23 - Mollusca - non-Gastropod groups Bivalves, Cephalopods, Chitons, etc. Family: 23 237 Malleidae (hammer oysters) - show full list Common Name: hammer oysters Organism Type: a hammer oyster Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Child Codes: 23 237901     Malleus spp.

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Taxon Notes:	This code is provided for use when identification of a specimen to family level is sufficient, or when no further detail is available.
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:e2c9d323-2007-4efd-a8a1-1ea4ea277638 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia Cleveland M3030300 WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:23067 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2017-09-08 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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Scientific Name verified against:

Tëmkin, I., 2010. Molecular phylogeny of pearl oysters and their relatives (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Pterioidea)., Evolutionary Biology, Vol. 10(342): 1-28.