CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

Animalia (kingdom) » Mollusca (phylum) » Bivalvia (class) » Pectinoida (order) » Propeamussiidae (family)

CAAB Code:	23 271907 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Propeamussiidae
Rank:	Family

CAAB category:	23 - Mollusca - non-Gastropod groups Bivalves, Cephalopods, Chitons, etc.
Family:	23 271 Propeamussiidae (deepwater scallops) - show full list
Common Name:	deepwater scallops
Organism Type:	a deepwater scallop
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	23 271000 Propeamussiidae, Cyclochlamydidae
Child Codes:	23 271901 Catillopecten spp. 23 271903 Cyclopecten spp. 23 271904 Parvamussium spp. 23 271905 Propeamussium spp. 23 271910 Similipecten spp.

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Occurrence locations [11] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records

Taxon Notes:

This code is provided for use when identification of a specimen to family level is sufficient, or when no further detail is available.

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:18d45b86-1061-4e00-9452-4e23a7d25fab Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
Cleveland	M3030500\|M3070300
ITIS	566911 View at ITIS
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:156983 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2022-08-24 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

Scientific Name verified against:	Dijkstra, H.H., Beu, A.G., 2018. Living scallops of Australia and adjacent waters (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pectinoidea: Propeamussiidae, Cyclochlamydidae and Pectinidae)., Records of the Australian Museum, Vol. 70(2): 113-330. . doi.org/10.3853/j.2201-4349.70.2018.1670 doi:10.3853/j.2201-4349.70.2018.1670

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