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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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

CAAB Code:	24 383002 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Sacoproteus smaragdinus   (Baba, 1949)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 24 - Mollusca - Gastropoda Gastropods (univalve molluscs, slugs, snails etc.) Family: 24 383 Limapontiidae (sea slugs) - show full list Common Name: [a seaslug] Organism Type: a seaslug Synonyms: Stiliger smaragdinus Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 24 383906     Sacoproteus spp.

Taxon Notes:

This species is now regarded as tropical Indo-Pacific and is known with certainty from Malaysia to Japan. Here, we have included tropical Australian records, eg from Darwin, as this species pending their confirmation. Records from other areas, including southern Australia and New Zealand, are regarded as referring to different species in the genus, and any records from these areas need to be re-examined to confirm their identity. See Krug et al, 2018.

Identifiers:

WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:494686 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-05-12 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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Record source:

Jensen, K.R., 1997. Sacoglossa (Mollusca, Opisthobranchia) from the Darwin Harbour area, Northern Territory, Australia. In: Hanley, J.R. Caswell, G. Megirian, D. Larson, H.K., Editors, Proceedings of the Sixth International Marine Biological Workshop. The marine flora and fauna of Darwin Harbour, Northern Territory, Australia.: 163-186. Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory Australian Marine Sciences Association, Darwin 466pp.

Scientific Name verified against:

Krug, P.J., Wong, N.L.W.S., Medina, M.R., Gosliner, T.M., Valdés, Á., 2018. Cryptic speciation yields remarkable mimics: A new genus of sea slugs that masquerade as toxic algae (Caulerpa spp.)., Zoologica Scripta, Vol. 47(6): 699-713. . doi:10.1111/zsc.12310 doi:10.1111/zsc.12310