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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Echinodermata (phylum)  »  Holothuroidea (class)  »  Molpadiida (order)  »  Molpadiidae (family)

CAAB Code:	25 436004 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Molpadia violacea   Studer, 1876
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 25 - Echinodermata Echinoderms (seastars, sea urchins, crinoids, etc.) Family: 25 436 Molpadiidae (holothurians) - show full list Common Name: [a holothurian] Organism Type: a holothurian Synonyms: Molpadia musculus (mis-identification) Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 25 436902     Molpadia spp.

Distribution map: View detailed map or click on map to see same. Occurrence locations [18] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records

Taxon Notes:	This species was previously mis-identified as M. musculus, see O'Loughlin et al, 2015.
Identifiers:	MoV 2029 WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:530430 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2020-02-09 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

Images:

CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC) Catalogue Number: MIIC-02680 CSIRO Specimen Reference: SS200510_151_038 Survey: SS200510 [details] Date: 11-December-2005 Position: -22.0719° 113.756° Depth: 398.7 metres Credit: CSIRO - Karen Gowlett-Holmes Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA) CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC) Catalogue Number: MIIC-02681 CSIRO Specimen Reference: SS200705_015_012 Survey: SS200705 [details] Date: 12-June-2007 Position: -20.1327° 114.979° Depth: 470 metres Credit: CSIRO - Karen Gowlett-Holmes Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)

Scientific Name verified against:

O'Loughlin, P.M., Skarbnik-López, J., Mackenzie, M., VandenSpiegel, D., 2015. Sea cucumbers of the Kerguelen Plateau, with description of new genus and species (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea)., Memoirs of Museum Victoria, Vol. 73: 59-93.