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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report
Animalia (kingdom) »
Mollusca (phylum)
» Bivalvia (class)
» Pterioida (order)
» Malleidae (family)
CAAB Code :
23 237006
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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: 11-May-2007 00:00 Position: -31.7676° 115.522°Image by : Karen Gowlett-HolmesLicence : 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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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 )
Images :
CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC)
Catalogue Number: MIIC-00526
CSIRO Specimen Reference: SS200704_005_019 Survey: SS200704 [details ] Date: 11-May-2007 Position: -31.7676° 115.522° Credit: CSIRO - Karen Gowlett-Holmes Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
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.