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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Mollusca (phylum)  »  Gastropoda (class)  »  Neogastropoda (order)  »  Conidae (family)

CAAB Code: 24 222005 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority
:

Conus (Plicaustraconus) adami   Wils, 1988

Rank: Species
Alternative Scientific Name: Conus adami    Wils, 1988
CAAB category: 24 - Mollusca - Gastropoda Gastropods (univalve molluscs, slugs, snails etc.)
Family: 24 222 Conidae (cone snails) - show full list
Common Name: [a cone snail]
Organism Type: a cone snail
Synonyms: Conus trigonus adami
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Marine unspecified
Parent Codes: 24 222901     Conus spp.
Taxon Notes:This species has often been treated as a geographical variant or subspecies of C. trigonus, but they have different distributions, the latter is shallow water species known from northern WA, whereas C. adami is a deep water species known from northern Australia, with limited overlap in the Darwin area. Here we follow WoRMS and list both species as distinct.

Identifiers:
AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:f3503254-9ad1-4566-a336-434f248c79e0
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
Cleveland M2030104
WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:429229
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-05-11
View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
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Record source: Wilson, B., 1994, Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods Pt II. Odyssey Publishing, Leederville, W.A.
Scientific Name
verified against
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Puillandre, N., Duda, T.F., Meyer, C., Olivera, B.M., Bouchet, P., 2015. One, four or 100 genera? A new classification of the cone snails., Journal of Molluscan Studies, Vol. 81(1): 1-23. . doi:10.1093/mollus/eyu055 doi:10.1093/mollus/eyu055
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