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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report
Animalia (kingdom) » Mollusca (phylum) » Bivalvia (class) » Veneroida (order) » Chamidae (family)
| CAAB Code: | 23 301002 |
| Scientific Name and Authority: | Chama ruderalis Lamarck, 1819 |
| CAAB category: | 23 - Mollusca - non-Gastropod groups Bivalves, Cephalopods, Chitons, etc. | |
| Family: | 23 301 Chamidae (chamas, jewel box shells) - show full list | |
| Common Name: | [a chama] | |
| Organism Type: | a chama | |
| Synonyms: | Chama fimbriata | |
| Taxon lists: |
Current Australian list:
 Commercial species list:  Standard Fish Names List: | |
| Habitat: |
Marine unspecified | |
| Parent Codes: |
23 301901
Chama spp. |
| Taxon Notes: | In New Zealand, this species is known only as a fossil and is believed to be locally extinct. See Beu, 2006. | ||||||
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| Record source: | Lamprell, K. Whitehead, T., 1992, Bivalves of Australia. Volume 1. Crawford House Press, Bathurst, N.S.W. |
| Scientific Name verified against: | Beu, A.G., 2006. Marine Mollusca of oxygen isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 2. Biostratigraphically useful and new Pliocene to Recent bivalves., Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand., Vol. 36(4): 151-338. |