CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report

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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Mollusca (phylum)  »  Gastropoda (class)  »  Sacoglossa (order)  »  Plakobranchidae (family)

CAAB Code: 24 371008 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority:

Elysia marginata   (Pease, 1871)

Rank: Species
CAAB category: 24 - Mollusca - Gastropoda Gastropods (univalve molluscs, slugs, snails etc.)
Family: 24 371 Plakobranchidae (sealsugs) - show full list
Common Name: [a sea slug]
Organism Type: a sea slug
Synonyms: Elysia ornata (mis-identification)
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Marine unspecified
Parent Codes: 24 371901     Elysia spp.
Taxon Notes:Indo-Pacific material previously included in Elysia ornata (now regarded as restricted to the Caribbean) has been shown in recent genetic work to be 4 distinct Indo-Pacific lineages. At present, these are all referred to E. marginata as the oldest available name, pending more detailed work to clarify their status.

Identifiers:
AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:3163ac23-af2a-4b37-9343-072c3882d423
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:765107
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2021-11-11
View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
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Record source: Wägele, H., Burghardt, I., Anthes, N., Evertsen, J., Klussmann-Kolb, A., Brodie, G.D., 2006. Species diversity of opisthobranch molluscs on Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia., Records of the Western Australian Museum. Supplement, Vol. 69: 33-59.
Scientific Name
verified against:		 Krug, P.J., Vendetti, J.E., Valdes, Á., 2016. Molecular and morphological systematics of Elysia Risso, 1818 (Heterobranchia: Sacoglossa) from the Caribbean region., Zootaxa, Vol. 4148(1): 1-137. . doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4148.1.1 doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4148.1.1
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