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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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CAAB Code:	24 424003 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Thecacera pennigera   (Montagu, 1815)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 24 - Mollusca - Gastropoda Gastropods (univalve molluscs, slugs, snails etc.) Family: 24 424 Polyceridae (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 424909     Thecacera spp.

Taxon Notes:	This species is not native to Australia or New Zealand, and probably was introduced accidentally by shipping. Its original range is unknown (although likely to be Europe/North Atlantic), it is now found in many temperate to subtropical regions worldwide, always in major port areas.
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:9ca3dc93-18c6-4b93-871e-634cebd1dd1e Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140840 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-05-12 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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Record source:	Furlani, D., 1996, A guide to the introduced marine species in Australian waters. Technical report, Centre for Research on Introduced Marine Pests (Australia), No. 5. CSIRO Division of Fisheries, Hobart
Scientific Name verified against:	Beechey, D.L., Willan, R.C., 2007. Establishment of the East Asian Dove Snail Mitrella bicincta (Gould, 1860) (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Columbellidae) in Australia., Molluscan Research, Vol. 27(2): 51-59.