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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 380181 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Circomphalus yatei   (Gray, 1835)
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 cockle] Organism Type: a cockle Taxon lists: 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: 23 380910     Circomphalus spp.

Taxon Notes:	Although Huber (2010) placed this species back into Bassina, here we follow Beu (2004) and WoRMS and keep it in Circomphalus, pending a detailed review including genetic data to resolve the issue.
Identifiers:	AFD NZOR-6-69223 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:564795 Name status: unaccepted    Checked on: 2016-06-20 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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Record source and Scientific Name verified against:

Beu, A.G., 2004. Marine Mollusca of oxygen isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 1: Revised generic positions and recognition of warm-water and cool-water migrants., Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Vol. 34(2): 111-265.