CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

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CAAB Code:	24 202999 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Prosiphonidae
Rank:	Family

CAAB category:	24 - Mollusca - Gastropoda Gastropods (univalve molluscs, slugs, snails etc.)
Family:	24 202 Prosiphonidae (whelks) - show full list
Common Name:	whelks
Common Names List:	whelks
Organism Type:	a whelk
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	24 202000 Buccinidae, Fasciolariidae, Nassariidae, Melongenidae, Colubrariidae, Belomitridae, Dolicholatiridae, Cominellidae, Austrosiphonidae, Tudiclidae, Prodotiidae, Pisaniidae
Child Codes:	24 202978 Antarctodomus spp. 24 202969 Antistreptus spp. 24 202979 Austrofusus spp. 24 202909 Bathydomus spp. 24 202917 Chlanidota spp. 24 202970 Falsimohnia spp. 24 202940 Meteuthria spp. 24 202945 Neobuccinum spp. 24 202954 Probuccinum spp. 24 202956 Proneptunea spp. 24 202957 Prosipho spp.

Taxon Notes:

This code is provided for use when identification of a specimen to this level is sufficient, or when no further detail is available.

Identifiers:

WoRMS

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1522144
View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

Scientific Name verified against:	Reid, A.L., 2021. Two new species of Iridoteuthis (Cephalopoda: Sepiolidae: Heteroteuthinae) from the southwest Pacific, with a redescription of Stoloteuthis maoria (Dell, 1959)., Zootaxa, Vol. 5005(4): 503-537. . doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5005.4.3 doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5005.4.3

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