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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Mollusca (phylum)  »  Bivalvia (class)  »  Carditoida (order)  »  Carditidae (family)

CAAB Code:	23 325908 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Purpurocardia spp.
Rank:	Genus

CAAB category: 23 - Mollusca - non-Gastropod groups Bivalves, Cephalopods, Chitons, etc. Family: 23 325 Carditidae (cockles) - show full list Common Name: [a cockle] Organism Type: a cockle Synonyms: Venericardia spp. Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 23 325000     Carditidae Child Codes: 23 325015     Purpurocardia amabilis 23 325014     Purpurocardia bimaculata 23 325017     Purpurocardia cavatica 23 325007     Purpurocardia purpurata 23 325039     Purpurocardia reinga

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Taxon Notes:	Species in this genus were previously included in Venericardia, which is now regarded as only containing fossil species. See Huber, 2010. This code is provided for use when identification of a specimen to this level is sufficient, or when no further detail is available.
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:5e4ad2c8-125d-4f43-af9c-1112cd82adc0 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:492198 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2021-09-12 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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Scientific Name verified against:

Huber, M., 2010, Compendium of Bivalves. ConchBooks, Hackenheim, Germany 901pp.