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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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

CAAB Code:	23 330014 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Crassinella torresi   (E.A. Smith, 1885)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 23 - Mollusca - non-Gastropod groups Bivalves, Cephalopods, Chitons, etc. Family: 23 330 Crassatellidae (cockles) - show full list Common Name: [a cockle] Organism Type: a cockle Synonyms: Salaputium torresi Crassinella martinicensis (mis-identification) Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 23 330908     Crassinella spp.

Taxon Notes:

This species (as Crassatella torresi) was described from Torres Strait by E.A. Smith in 1885 from RV "Challenger" material. Huber (2010) Compendium of Bivalves, stated that it has not been found since in Australasian waters, considered the type locality as erroneous, and synonymised it with the Caribbean species Crassinella martinicensis. It was recently rediscovered in Queensland, confirming that the original type locality is correct and that it is a valid, distinct species

Identifiers:

WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:420844 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-05-10 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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Record source:	Lamprell, K. Healy, J., 1998, Bivalves of Australia. Volume 2. Backhuys, Leiden
Scientific Name verified against:	Hales, T.J., 2016. A challenge from HMS Challenger: Crassinella torresi (Smith, 1885)., The Malacological Society of Australasia Newsletter, Vol. 157: 5.