CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report

Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

CAAB Code
23 356024 Show as JSON
Scientific Name & Authority
Semele vestalis   (Reeve, 1853)
Rank
Species
CAAB category
23 - Mollusca - non-Gastropod groups Bivalves, Cephalopods, Chitons, etc.
Family
23 356 Semelidae (clams) - show full list
Common Name
[a bivalve]
Organism Type
a bivalve
Synonyms
Semele brambleyae
Taxon lists
Current Australian list:
Special purpose listing - see taxon notes
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat
Marine unspecified
Parent Codes
23 356903     Semele spp.
Taxon Notes
Marshall & Spencer (2013) regard Semele brambleyae as an adventive New Zealand record of the Chinese species S. vestalis, which they regard as distinct from S. carnicolor. It is very likely that the NZ specimen was transported in ballast water. No other specimens have ever been found in NZ.
Identifiers
World Register of Marine Species urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:722865
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
Huber, M., 2010, Compendium of Bivalves. ConchBooks, Hackenheim, Germany 901pp.
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.