Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report
- CAAB Code
- 24 432044 Show as JSON
- Scientific Name & Authority
- Hypselodoris maculosa (Pease, 1871)
- Rank
- Species
- CAAB category
- 24 - Mollusca - Gastropoda Gastropods (univalve molluscs, slugs, snails etc.)
- Family
- 24 432 Chromodorididae (nudibranchs) - show full list
- Common Name
- [a nudibranch]
- Organism Type
- a nudibranch
- Taxon lists
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Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
- Habitat
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Marine unspecified
- Parent Codes
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24 432909
Hypselodoris spp.
- Taxon Notes
- Australian records require verification - this species has been extensively confused with H. decorata, and either or both may be present in Australian waters.
- Identifiers
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Australian Faunal Directory (AFD) urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:0767b511-3e69-4c25-ad1e-0a81c5d9e414
Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living AustraliaWorld Register of Marine Species urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:209597
Name status: accepted Checked on: 2016-05-10
View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
- Record source
- Wägele, H., Burghardt, I., Anthes, N., Evertsen, J., Klussmann-Kolb, A., Brodie, G.D., 2006. Species diversity of opisthobranch molluscs on Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia., Records of the Western Australian Museum. Supplement, Vol. 69: 33-59.
- Scientific Name verified against
- Epstein, H.E,, Hallas, J.M., Johnson, R.F., Lopez, A., Gosliner, T.M., 2019. Reading between the lines: revealing cryptic species diversity and colour patterns in Hypselodoris nudibranchs (Mollusca: Heterobranchia: Chromodorididae)., Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Vol. 186: 116-189. . doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zly048 doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zly048