CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report

Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

CAAB Code
25 436004 Show as JSON
Scientific Name & Authority
Molpadia violacea   Studer, 1876
Rank
Species
CAAB category
25 - Echinodermata Echinoderms (seastars, sea urchins, crinoids, etc.)
Image
CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC)
Catalogue Number
MIIC-02680
CSIRO Specimen Reference:
SS200510_151_038
Survey:
SS200510 [details]
Date of image:
2005-12-11 00:00
Position:
-22.0719° S 113.756° E
Depth:
398.7 metres
Image by:
Karen Gowlett-Holmes
Licence:
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
Rights:
CSIRO - Karen Gowlett-Holmes
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.
Taxon Notes
This species was previously mis-identified as M. musculus, see O'Loughlin et al, 2015.
Identifiers
Museum of Victoria 2029
World Register of Marine Species 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)
Distribution Map

Occurrence locations [18] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records
Other Images
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.