CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

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

CAAB Code:	23 272001 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Spondylus tenellus Reeve, 1856
Rank:	Species

CAAB category:	23 - Mollusca - non-Gastropod groups Bivalves, Cephalopods, Chitons, etc.
Family:	23 272 Spondylidae (thorny oysters) - show full list
Common Name:	[a thorny oyster]
Organism Type:	a thorny oyster
Synonyms:	Spondylus prionifer Spondylus tenellus regillus
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	23 272901 Spondylus spp.
Previous Codes (if any):	23 272028

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Occurrence locations [1] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:e0239797-b39e-459b-b36e-a682a1cd050f Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
MoV	2693
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:506968 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2016-05-11 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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.

CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report