CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

Animalia (kingdom) » Mollusca (phylum) » Gastropoda (class) » Nudibranchia (order) » Goniodorididae (family)

CAAB Code:	24 422009 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Okenia pellucida Burn, 1967
Rank:	Species

CAAB category:	24 - Mollusca - Gastropoda Gastropods (univalve molluscs, slugs, snails etc.)
Family:	24 422 Goniodorididae (nudibranchs) - show full list
Common Name:	[a nudibranch]
Organism Type:	a nudibranch
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	24 422904 Okenia spp.

Taxon Notes:

This species is considered to be native to Asia, and was probably accidentally introduced to Australia, New Zealand and other areas by shipping.

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:5b9a5939-4e85-46ce-9ca8-292f1db2b613 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:397158 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2016-05-11 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

Record source:	Rudman, W.B., 2004. Further species of the opisthobranch genus Okenia (Nudibranchia: Goniodorididae) from the Indo-West Pacific., Zootaxa, Vol. 695: 1-70.
Scientific Name verified against:	Gosliner, T.M., 2004. Phylogenetic systematics of Okenia, Sakishimaia, Hopkinsiella and Hopkinsia (Nudibranchia: Goniodorididae) with descriptions of new species from the tropical Indo-Pacific., Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Vol. 55(5): 125-161.

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