Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report
- CAAB Code
- 23 345051 Show as JSON
- Scientific Name & Authority
- Spisula discors (Gray, 1837)
- Rank
- Species
- CAAB category
- 23 - Mollusca - non-Gastropod groups Bivalves, Cephalopods, Chitons, etc.
- Family
- 23 345 Mactridae (clams) - show full list
- Common Name
- [a clam]
- Organism Type
- a clam
- Synonyms
- Spisula (Spisulona) discors Mactra discors
- Taxon lists
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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
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23 345908
Spisula spp.
- Identifiers
-
World Register of Marine Species urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:505772
Name status: accepted Checked on: 2016-05-12
View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
- Record source
- Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A., Maxwell, P.A., Grant-Mackie, J.A., Stilwell, J.D., Willan, R.C., Campbell, H.J., Crampton, J.S., Henderson, R.A., Bradshaw, M.A., Waterhouse, J.B,, Pojeta, J.Jr., 2009. Phylum Mollusca. In: Gordon, D.P., Editor, New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One. Kingdom Animalia. Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.: 161-254. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, NZ 566pp.
- Scientific Name verified against
- Marshall, B.A., Spencer, H.G., 2013. Comments on some taxonomic changes affecting marine Bivalvia of the New Zealand region recently introduced in Huber's Compendium of bivalves, with some additional taxonomic changes., Molluscan Research, Vol. 33(1): 40-49.