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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report
Animalia (kingdom) » Mollusca (phylum) » Bivalvia (class) » Veneroida (order) » Tellinidae (family)
CAAB Code: | 23 355022 |
Scientific Name and Authority: | Macoma candida (Lamarck, 1818) |
CAAB category: | 23 - Mollusca - non-Gastropod groups Bivalves, Cephalopods, Chitons, etc. |
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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: |
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Habitat: |
Marine unspecified | |
Parent Codes: |
23 355914
Macoma spp. |
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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: | 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. |