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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Mollusca (phylum)  »  Gastropoda (class)  »  [unassigned] Caenogastropoda (order)  »  Potamididae (family)

CAAB Code:	24 083004 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Cerithidea obtusa   (Lamarck, 1822)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 24 - Mollusca - Gastropoda Gastropods (univalve molluscs, slugs, snails etc.) Family: 24 83 Potamididae (mud creepers) - show full list Common Name: [a mud creeper] Organism Type: a mud creeper Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Species not on current Australian list, but occuring in adjacent region: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Estuarine Coastal (0-40m) Parent Codes: 24 083901     Cerithidea spp.

Taxon Notes:	Previous records of this species from Australia are most likely mis-identifications of other species in the genus, and it is currently not considered to be present in Australia. See Reid, 2014.
Identifiers:	WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:215141 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-05-10 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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Record source:	Wilson, B., 1993, Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods Pt I. Odyssey Publishing, Leederville, W.A.
Scientific Name verified against:	Reid, D.G., 2014. The genus Cerithidea Swainson, 1840 (Gastropoda: Potamididae) in the Indo-West Pacific region., Zootaxa, Vol. 3775(1): 1-65.