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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report
Animalia (kingdom) » Mollusca (phylum) » Bivalvia (class) » Ostreoida (order) » Ostreidae (family)
CAAB Code: | 23 257002 |
Scientific Name and Authority: | Ostrea angasi G.B. Sowerby II, 1871 |
Rank: | Species |
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Taxon Notes: | This species was commercially harvested prior to 1940, but populations have declined severely since and it is no longer fished commercially. It is still collected for food by recreational divers in some areas, and there is increasing interested in aquaculture. This code replaces previous (interim) CAAB code 00 653004 (FISHLIST 653004). | ||||||
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Record source: | Lamprell, K. Healy, J., 1998, Bivalves of Australia. Volume 2. Backhuys, Leiden |
Scientific Name verified against: | Salvi, D., Mariottini, P., 2017. Molecular taxonomy in 2D: a novel ITS2 rRNA sequence-structure approach guides the description of the oysters' subfamily Saccostreinae and the genus Magallana (Bivalvia: Ostreidae)., Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Vol. 179(2): 263-276. . doi:10.1111/zoj.12455 doi:10.1111/zoj.12455 |