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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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

CAAB Code:	23 272040 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Spondylus multisetosus   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 Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Species not on current Australian list, but occuring in adjacent region: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 23 272901     Spondylus spp.

Taxon Notes:	This species is not currently regarded as present in Australian waters - any Australian records need to be re-examined to determine their correct identity.
Identifiers:	WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:181306 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-05-12 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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Record source:	Healy, J.M., Potter, D.G., 2010. A preliminary checklist of the marine bivalves (Mollusca: Bivalvia) of Moreton Bay, Queensland., Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature, Vol. 54(3): 235-252.
Scientific Name verified against:	Huber, M., 2010, Compendium of Bivalves. ConchBooks, Hackenheim, Germany 901pp.