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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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

CAAB Code: 24 445002 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority
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Scyllaea fulva   Quoy & Gaimard, 1824

Rank: Species
CAAB category: 24 - Mollusca - Gastropoda Gastropods (univalve molluscs, slugs, snails etc.)
Family: 24 445 Scyllaeidae (nudibranchs) - show full list
Common Name: [a nudibranch]
Organism Type: a nudibranch
Synonyms: Scyllaea pelagica (mis-identification)
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Marine unspecified
Parent Codes: 24 445903     Scyllaea spp.
Taxon Notes:This species was previously recorded from this region as Scyllaea pelagica, which was regarded as cosmopolitan in distribution. The Indo-Pacific species (S. fulva) is now regarded as distinct from the true S. pelagica from the Atlantic. See Pola et al, 2012.

Identifiers:
MoV 4880
WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:606494
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: Burn, R., 2006. A checklist and bibliography of the Opisthobranchia (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Victoria and the Bass Strait area, south-eastern Australia., Museum Victoria Science Reports, Vol. 10: 1-42.
Scientific Name
verified against
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Pola, M., Camacho-GarcĂ­a, Y.E., Gosliner, T.M., 2012. Molecular data illuminate cryptic nudibranch species: the evolution of the Scyllaeidae (Nudibranchia: Dendronotina) with a revision of Notobryon., Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Vol. 165: 311-336.
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