CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

Animalia (kingdom) » Mollusca (phylum) » Scaphopoda (class) » Dentaliida (order) » Dentaliidae (family)

CAAB Code:	23 501043 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Tesseracme quadrapicalis (Hanley in G.B. Sowerby II, 1860)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category:	23 - Mollusca - non-Gastropod groups Bivalves, Cephalopods, Chitons, etc.
Family:	23 501 Dentaliidae (tusk shells) - show full list
Common Name:	[a tusk shell]
Organism Type:	a tusk shell
Synonyms:	Tesseracme quadrapicale Tesseracme dispar (mis-identification)
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	23 501904 Tesseracme spp.

Taxon Notes:

Australian records of Tesseracme dispar are actually mis-identified specimens of T. quadapicalis. See Lamprell & Healy, 1998.

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:d1e4aff9-fe58-4860-99a1-f9bef28a9cab Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:344553 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-01-11 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

Record source:	Lamprell, K., Healy, J., 1998. A revision of the Scaphopoda from Australian waters (Mollusca), Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement, Vol. 24: 1-189.
Scientific Name verified against:	Scarabino, V., 1995. Scaphopoda of the tropical Pacific and Indian Oceans, with description of 3 new genera and 42 new species. In: Bouchet, P., Editor, Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Vol. 14, Mémoires du Muséum National D'Histoire Naturelle, 167: 189-379.

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