CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

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

CAAB Code:	23 237006 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Malleus regula (Forsskål in Niebuhr, 1775)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category:	23 - Mollusca - non-Gastropod groups Bivalves, Cephalopods, Chitons, etc.
	CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC) Catalogue Number: MIIC-00526 CSIRO Specimen Reference: SS200704_005_019 Survey: SS200704 [details] Date of image: 2007-05-11 00:00 Position: -31.7676° S 115.522° E Image by: Karen Gowlett-Holmes Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA) Rights: CSIRO - Karen Gowlett-Holmes
Family:	23 237 Malleidae (hammer oysters) - show full list
Common Name:	[a hammer oyster]
Common Names List:	straight hammer oyster
Organism Type:	a hammer oyster
Synonyms:	Malleus (Malvufundus) regula Malleus regulus Malleus (Malvufundus) decurtatus Malleus decurtatus
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	23 237901 Malleus spp.
Previous Codes (if any):	23 237007

Distribution map:
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Occurrence locations [18] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:1583a0e0-e403-4a65-bad2-46e9addf0cdf Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:605717 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2016-06-17 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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