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)  »  Anaspidea (order)  »  Aplysiidae (family)

CAAB Code: 24 388007 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority:

Bursatella leachii   Blainville, 1817

Rank: Species
CAAB category: 24 - Mollusca - Gastropoda Gastropods (univalve molluscs, slugs, snails etc.)
Family: 24 388 Aplysiidae (sea hares) - show full list
Common Name: [a sea hare]
Organism Type: a sea hare
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Marine unspecified
Parent Codes: 24 388902     Bursatella spp.
Taxon Notes:This widespread species was previously regarded as the only species in the genus, but is now recognised as a species complex. Specimens from Western Australia and western South Australia previously recorded as this species are now regarded as a distinct species, B. hirsuta.

Identifiers:
AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:a3648259-f29d-47ea-a090-01ba578fef07
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138759
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2020-10-29
View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
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Record source: Burn, R., 2006. A checklist and bibliography of the Opisthobranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Victoria and the Bass Strait area, south-eastern Australia., Museum Victoria Science Reports, Vol. 10: 1-42.
Scientific Name
verified against:		 Bazzicalupo, E., Crocetta, F., Gosliner, T.M., Berteaux-Lecellier, V., Camacho-Garcia, Y.E., Chandran, B.K.S., Valdes, Á., 2020. Molecular and morphological systematics of Bursatella leachii de Blainville, 1817 and Stylocheilus striatus Quoy & Gaimard, 1832 reveal cryptic diversity in pantropically distributed taxa (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Heterobranchia)., Invertebrate Systematics, Vol. 34: 535-568. . doi.org/10.1071/IS19056 doi:10.1071/IS19056
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