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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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

CAAB Code:	23 380145 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Gomphinella queenslandica Huber, 2010
Rank:	Species

CAAB category:	23 - Mollusca - non-Gastropod groups Bivalves, Cephalopods, Chitons, etc.
Family:	23 380 Veneridae (venus shells) - show full list
Common Name:	[a venus cockle]
Organism Type:	a venus cockle
Synonyms:	Gomphina moerchi (mis-identification)
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	23 380915 Gomphinella spp.

Taxon Notes:

This species has previously been confused with the East African species Gomphinalla moerchi. See Huber, 2010.

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.name:864ebc0c-6aae-41d4-8947-24489522ed40 Name status: synonym Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:507680 Name status: unaccepted Checked on: 2017-03-05 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:	Huber, M., 2010, Compendium of Bivalves. ConchBooks, Hackenheim, Germany 901pp.

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