CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

Animalia (kingdom) » Mollusca (phylum) » Bivalvia (class) » Anomalodesmata (order) » Laternulidae (family)

CAAB Code:	23 412001 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Laternula recta (Reeve, 1863)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category:	23 - Mollusca - non-Gastropod groups Bivalves, Cephalopods, Chitons, etc.
Family:	23 412 Laternulidae (lantern clams) - show full list
Common Name:	[a lantern clam]
Organism Type:	a lantern clam
Synonyms:	Laternula rostrata (mis-identification)
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	23 412901 Laternula spp.

Taxon Notes:

This Australian species has been confused with Laternula rostrata - the latter is not recorded from Australian waters.

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:151d0dac-577b-49a8-a950-893d997a7f7f Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
Cleveland	M3060201
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:506758 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2016-05-11 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

Record source:	Lamprell, K. Healy, J., 1998, Bivalves of Australia. Volume 2. Backhuys, Leiden
Scientific Name verified against:	Huber, M., 2010, Compendium of Bivalves. ConchBooks, Hackenheim, Germany 901pp.

CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report