CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

Animalia (kingdom) » Mollusca (phylum) » Gastropoda (class) » Thecosomata (order) » Cavoliniidae (family)

CAAB Code:	24 402000 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Cavoliniidae
Rank:	Family

CAAB category:	24 - Mollusca - Gastropoda Gastropods (univalve molluscs, slugs, snails etc.)
Family:	24 402 Cavoliniidae (shelled pteropods) - show full list
Common Name:	shelled pteropods
Common Names List:	shelled peteropods
Organism Type:	a shelled pteropod
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified Pelagic, Shelf (0-200m) Pelagic, Epipelagic (0-200m, Oceanic) Pelagic, Mesopelagic (200-1000m, Oceanic) Pelagic, Bathypelagic (1000-2000m, Oceanic) Pelagic, Abyssopelagic (2000m+, Oceanic)
Parent Codes:	24 400000 Thecosomata
Child Codes:	24 402901 Cavolinia spp. 24 402902 Diacavolinia spp. 24 402903 Diacria spp.

Taxon Notes:

This code is provided for use when identification of a specimen to family level is sufficient, or when no further detail is available.

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:485951b7-c671-49e4-b8d4-e31a12e1c11e Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:23000 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2017-03-16 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

Scientific Name verified against:	Janssen, A.W., Bush, S.L., Bednaršek, N., 2019. The shelled pteropods of the northeast Pacific Ocean (Mollusca: Heterobranchia, Pteropoda)., Zoosymposia, Vol. 13: 305-346. . dx.doi.org/10.11646/zoosymposia.13.1.22 doi:10.11646/zoosymposia.13.1.22

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