Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report
- CAAB Code
- 24 445002 Show as JSON
- Scientific Name & Authority
- 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
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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 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
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Museum of Victoria 4880
World Register of Marine Species 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)
- 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
- Pola, M., Camacho-García, 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.