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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Echinodermata (phylum)  »  Ophiuroidea (class)  »  Ophiacanthida (order)  »  Clarkcomidae (family)

CAAB Code:	25 181002 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Clarkcoma bollonsi   (Farquhar, 1908)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 25 - Echinodermata Echinoderms (seastars, sea urchins, crinoids, etc.) Family: 25 181 Clarkcomidae (brittlestars) - show full list Common Name: [a brittlestar] Organism Type: a brittlestar Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Species not on current Australian list, but occuring in adjacent region: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 25 181901     Clarkcoma spp. Previous Codes (if any): 25 178001

Taxon Notes:	This species has previously been recorded from Australia, but Australian material belongs to a different species which is currently listed in CAAB as Clarkcoma cf. bollonsi, and will be formally described in the near future. All previous records of C. bollonsi from Australian waters need to be re-examined to determine their true identity.
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:63388ce7-a0dc-42d9-b9dc-3ce712002a30 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:243239 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2021-05-05 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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Record source:	Rowe, F.W.E. Gates, J., 1995, Zoological catalogue of Australia. Volume 33. Echinodermata. CSIRO, East Melbourne
Scientific Name verified against:	Mills, V.S., O'Hara, T.D., 2013. Ophiuroids (Echinodermata; Ophiuroidea) of biogenic habitats on the continental shelf of New Zealand., Zootaxa, Vol. 3613(5): 401-444.