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 057020 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority:

Nerita melanotragus   E.A. Smith, 1884

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]
Organism Type: a nerite
Synonyms: Nerita atramentosa
Nerita (Melanerita) atramentosa
Nerita morio
Nerita (Lisanerita) melanotragus
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, from southeastern Australia and New Zealand, has a tan operculum, and until recently was confused with Nerita atramentosa from southern Australia which has a black operculum. It has also been mis-identified as N. morio, a species not found in Australia or New Zealand. See Spencer et al, 2007.

Identifiers:
AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:56579001-8640-47aa-9596-aa7da9a075ce
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:713886
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2017-09-07
View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
Record source: Waters, J.M., King, T.M., O'Loughlin, P.M., Spencer, H.G., 2005. Phylogeographical disjunction in abundant high-dispersal littoral gastropods., Molecular Ecology, Vol. 14: 2789-2802.
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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