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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Mollusca (phylum)  »  Scaphopoda (class)  »  Gadilida (order)  »  Gadilidae (family)

CAAB Code:	23 517904 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Polyschides spp.
Rank:	Genus

CAAB category: 23 - Mollusca - non-Gastropod groups Bivalves, Cephalopods, Chitons, etc. Family: 23 517 Gadilidae (tusk shells) - show full list Common Name: [a tusk shell] Organism Type: a tusk shell Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 23 517000     Gadilidae

Taxon Notes:	No Australian species are currently regarded as belonging to this genus, although true Polyschides species are known from the region. Australian species previously placed in this genus are now placed in Gadila and Siphonodentalium. See Scarabino, 2008. This code is provided for use when identification of a specimen to this level is sufficient, or when no further detail is available.
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:c4fa5341-081a-4fdb-99b8-d4152b835f3a Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia

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Scarabino, V., 2008. New species and new records of scaphopods from New Caledonia. In: Héros V. Cowie, R. Bouchet, P., Editors, Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 25. Mémoires du Muséum National D'Histoire Naturelle, 196: 215-268.