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 257909 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority:

Saccostrea spp.  

Rank: Genus
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
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Marine unspecified
Estuarine
Parent Codes: 23 257000     Ostreidae
Child Codes: 23 257023     Saccostrea circumsuta
23 257007     Saccostrea echinata
23 257006     Saccostrea glomerata
23 257004     Saccostrea scyphophilla
23 257024     Saccostrea spathulata
23 257025     Saccostrea subtrigona
Taxon Notes:This code is provided for use when identification of a specimen to this level is sufficient, or when no further detail is available.

Identifiers:
AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:c2073632-adf7-4803-b8b0-865fbfad2ed3
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
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Scientific Name
verified against:		 Huber, M., 2010, Compendium of Bivalves. ConchBooks, Hackenheim, Germany 901pp.
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