Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report
- CAAB Code
- 24 083004 Show as JSON
- Scientific Name & 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
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Current Australian list:
Species not on current Australian list, but occuring in adjacent region:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
- Habitat
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Marine unspecified
Estuarine
Coastal (0-40m) - Parent Codes
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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
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World Register of Marine Species 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)
- 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.