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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 |
| Scientific Name and Authority: | Malleus regula (Forsskål in Niebuhr, 1775) |
| CAAB category: | 23 - Mollusca - non-Gastropod groups Bivalves, Cephalopods, Chitons, etc. |
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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-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 | ||||
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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. |