Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report
- CAAB Code
- 24 200189 Show as JSON
- Scientific Name & Authority
- Thais ambustulatus Hedley, 1912
- Rank
- Species
- CAAB category
- 24 - Mollusca - Gastropoda Gastropods (univalve molluscs, slugs, snails etc.)
- Family
- 24 200 Muricidae: Rapaninae (gastropods) - show full list
- Common Name
- [a whelk]
- Organism Type
- a whelk
- Synonyms
- Thais (Mancinella) ambustulatus Mancinella ambustulatus
- Taxon lists
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Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
- Habitat
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Marine unspecified
- Parent Codes
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24 200979
Thais spp.
- Taxon Notes
- The generic placement of this species is unresolved. It is retained here in Thais pending further work to clarify its position. See Claremont et al, 2012.
- Identifiers
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Australian Faunal Directory (AFD) urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:3885ad52-851b-49ca-beb5-625f3f667aea
Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living AustraliaWorld Register of Marine Species urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:600656
Name status: accepted Checked on: 2017-02-11
View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
- Record source
- Wilson, B., 1994, Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods Pt II. Odyssey Publishing, Leederville, W.A.
- Scientific Name verified against
- Claremont, M., Vermeij, G.J., Williams, S.T., Reid, D.G., 2012. Global phylogeny and new classification of the Rapaninae (Gastropoda: Muricidae), dominant molluscan predators on tropical rocky seashores., Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Vol. 66: 91-102.