CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

Animalia (kingdom) » Echinodermata (phylum) » Echinoidea (class) » Cassiduloida (order) » Cassidulidae (family)

CAAB Code:	25 282000 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Cassidulidae
Rank:	Family

CAAB category:	25 - Echinodermata Echinoderms (seastars, sea urchins, crinoids, etc.)
Family:	25 282 Cassidulidae (heart urchins) - show full list
Common Name:	heart urchins
Organism Type:	a heart urchin
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Child Codes:	25 282902 Cassidulus spp. 25 282903 Kassandrina spp. 25 282901 Oligopodia spp.

Taxon Notes:

This code is provided for use when identification of a specimen to family level is sufficient, or when no further detail is available.

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:5ca5228b-b6bf-4ba9-960e-a751047d7eb8 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia

Scientific Name verified against:	Souto, C., Martins, L., 2018. Synchrotron micro-CT scanning leads to the discovery of a new genus of morphologically conserved echinoid (Echinodermata: Cassiduloida)., Zootaxa, Vol. 4457(1): 70-92. . doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4457.1.3 doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4457.1.3

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