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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report
Animalia (kingdom) »
Mollusca (phylum)
» Bivalvia (class)
» Pectinoida (order)
» Plicatulidae (family)
CAAB Code :
23 260002
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Scientific Name and Authority :
Plicatula plicata
(Linnaeus, 1767)
Rank : Species
CAAB category :
23 -
Mollusca - non-Gastropod groups Bivalves, Cephalopods, Chitons, etc.
CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC)
Catalogue Number: MIIC-00533
CSIRO Specimen Reference: SS200507_109_004 Survey: SS200507 [details ] Date of image: 01-August-2005 00:00 Position: -28.9879° 113.837°Image by : Karen Gowlett-HolmesLicence : Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)Rights : CSIRO - Karen Gowlett-Holmes
Family :
23 260 Plicatulidae (oysters, cat's paw shells) - show full list
Common Name : [an oyster]
Organism Type : an oyster
Synonyms :
Plicatula essingtonensis
Plicatula chinensis
Taxon lists :
Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat :
Marine unspecified
Parent Codes :
23 260901
Plicatula spp.
Distribution map :
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Identifiers :
AFD
urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:3cd290df-8dd7-4bbc-80ec-1904520f7a92
Name status: accepted
Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
Cleveland
M3070502
WoRMS
urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207847
Name status: accepted
Checked on: 2020-02-03
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-00533
CSIRO Specimen Reference: SS200507_109_004 Survey: SS200507 [details ] Date: 01-August-2005 Position: -28.9879° 113.837° 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.