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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 383012 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority
:

Sacoproteus yhiae   Krug, Wong, Medina, Gosliner & Valdés, 2018

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 sea slug]
Organism Type: a sea slug
Synonyms: Stiliger smaragdinus (mis-identification)
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 has previously been mis-identified as Stiliger smaragdinus (now Sacoproteus smaragdinus)..

Identifiers:
WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1298657
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2018-11-22
View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
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Record source and
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
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