CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report

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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Mollusca (phylum)  »  Gastropoda (class)  »  Cycloneritimorpha (order)  »  Neritidae (family)

CAAB Code: 24 057001 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority:

Nerita atramentosa   Reeve, 1855

Rank: Species
CAAB category: 24 - Mollusca - Gastropoda Gastropods (univalve molluscs, slugs, snails etc.)
Family: 24 57 Neritidae (nerites) - show full list
Common Name: [a nerite]
Common Names List: black nerite
black crow
Organism Type: a nerite
Synonyms: Nerita melanotragus (mis-identification)
Nerita (Lisanerita) atramentosa
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Marine unspecified
Parent Codes: 24 057902     Nerita spp.
Taxon Notes:This species has a black operculum and is found in southern Australia. Animals from southeastern Australia and New Zealand with tan opercula that were previously included in this species have recently been shown to be a closely related but different species, Nerita melanotragus - see Spencer et al, 2007. Nerita atramentosa is not found in New Zealand.
Scientific Name Notes:Nerita melanotragus has previously been considered a synonym of this species, but recent genetic work has shown it is a separate species with a distinctively coloured operculum.

Identifiers:
AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:f9d004aa-200e-4699-8596-162189e7e4ba
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:713884
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-05-12
View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
Record source: Wilson, B., 1993, Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods Pt I. Odyssey Publishing, Leederville, W.A.
Scientific Name
verified against:		 Spencer, H., Waters, J.M. & Eichhorst, T.E., 2007. Taxonomy and nomenclature of black nerites (Gastropoda: Neritimorpha: Nerita) from the South Pacific., Invertebrate Systematics, Vol. 21: 229-237.
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