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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 388022 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Aplysia nigrocincta   Von Martens, 1880
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 Synonyms: Aplysia parvula Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Species not on current Australian list, but occuring in adjacent region: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 24 388901     Aplysia spp.

Taxon Notes:	This species was previously confused with the Atlantic species Aplysia parvula. Currently definitely recorded from widespread areas in the Indian Ocean and tropical Indo-West Pacific, and it is highly likely to be present in Australian tropical waters.
Identifiers:	WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1349546 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2020-05-26 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:

Golestani, H., Crocetta, F., Padula, V., Camacho-García, Y., Langeneck, J., Poursanidis, D., Pola, M., Yokes, M.B., Cervera, J.L., Jung, D.-W., Gosliner, T.M., Araya, J.F., Hooker, Y., Schrödl, M., Valdés, Á., 2019. The little Aplysia coming of age: from one species to a complex of species complexes in Aplysia parvula (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Heterobranchia(., Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Vol. 187: 279-330.