CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

Animalia (kingdom) » Mollusca (phylum) » Bivalvia (class) » Veneroida (order) » Tellinidae (family)

CAAB Code:	23 355022 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Macoma candida (Lamarck, 1818)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category:	23 - Mollusca - non-Gastropod groups Bivalves, Cephalopods, Chitons, etc.
Family:	23 355 Tellinidae (clams) - show full list
Common Name:	[a bivalve]
Organism Type:	a bivalve
Synonyms:	Tellina arafurensis Tellina candida Macoma (Psammacoma) candida
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	23 355914 Macoma spp.

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Occurrence locations [2] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:047350ab-943f-419f-bb6a-c1fcca234fcb Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
Cleveland	M3010403\|M3010407
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:723980 Name status: unaccepted Checked on: 2021-05-07 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

Record source:	Lamprell, K. Whitehead, T., 1992, Bivalves of Australia. Volume 1. Crawford House Press, Bathurst, N.S.W.
Scientific Name verified against:	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.

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