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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report
Animalia (kingdom) » Mollusca (phylum) » Gastropoda (class) » Littorinimorpha (order) » (family)
CAAB Code: | 24 176000 |
Scientific Name and Authority: | Cymatiidae, Ranellidae, Charoniidae |
CAAB category: | 24 - Mollusca - Gastropoda Gastropods (univalve molluscs, slugs, snails etc.) |
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Family: | 24 176 (tritons) - show full list | |
Common Name: | triton shells | |
Common Names List: | tritons | |
Organism Type: | a triton shell | |
Taxon lists: |
Current Australian list:
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Habitat: |
Marine unspecified | |
Child Codes: |
24 176923
Charoniidae 24 176921 Cymatiidae 24 176922 Ranellidae |
Taxon Notes: | This group has now been split into three families. This code is provided for use when identification of a specimen to this level is sufficient, or when no further detail is available. | ||||||
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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: | Strong, E.E. Puillandre, N. Beu, A.G. Castelin, M. Bouchet, P., 2019. Frogs and tuns and tritons - A molecular phylogeny and revised family classification of the predatory superfamily Tonnoidea (Caenogastropoda)., Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Vol. 130: 18-34. . doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2018.09.016. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.09.016 |