CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report

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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 257022 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority:

Magallana sikamea   (Amemiya, 1928)

Rank: Species
CAAB category: 23 - Mollusca - non-Gastropod groups Bivalves, Cephalopods, Chitons, etc.
Family: 23 257 Ostreidae (oysters) - show full list
Common Name: [an oyster]
Organism Type: an oyster
Synonyms: Crassostrea sikamea
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Marine unspecified
Parent Codes: 23 257903     Magallana spp.
Taxon Notes:Native to Japan, this species has been introduced to several other areas for aquaculture, including Australia.

Identifiers:
WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:397061
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-05-10
View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
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Record source: Huber, M., 2010, Compendium of Bivalves. ConchBooks, Hackenheim, Germany 901pp.
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
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