CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

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CAAB Code:	27 560000 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Balanidae
Rank:	Family

CAAB category:	27 - Crustacea - non-Malacostraca Copepods, ostracods, barnacles, and minor crustacean groups
Family:	27 560 Balanidae (barnacles) - show full list
Common Name:	barnacles
Organism Type:	a barnacle
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Child Codes:	27 560901 Amphibalanus spp. 27 560902 Austromegabalanus spp. 27 560903 Balanus spp. 27 560905 Fistulobalanus spp. 27 560904 Megabalanus spp. 27 560906 Notomegabalanus 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:b55b7faf-a240-409c-9ad2-5117f7be7a42 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
ITIS	89599 View at ITIS
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:106057 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2018-09-25 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

Record source:	Jones, D.S., 2003. The biogeography of Western Australian shallow water barnacles. In: Wells, F.E. Walker, D.I. Jones, D.S., Editors, The Marine Flora and Fauna of Dampier, Western Australia.: 479-496. Western Australian Museum, Perth, WA

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