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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report
Animalia (kingdom) » Arthropoda (phylum) » Pycnogonida (class) » Pantopoda (order) » Phoxichilidiidae (family)
CAAB Code: | 33 015014 |
Scientific Name and Authority: | Anoplodactylus angulatus (Dohrn, 1881) |
Rank: | Species |
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Taxon Notes: | This species is native to the Mediterranean and NE Atlantic, and is known in Australia only from southern WA, where it was likely accidentally introduced by shipping. Australian specimens were previously mis-identified as A. angulatus, see Bamber, 2005. | ||
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Record source: | Australian Biological Resources Study (Houston, K. + others, editors), 2000-, Australian Faunal Directory. World Wide Web electronic publication, http: www.environment.gov.au/abrs/abif-fauna/ |
Scientific Name verified against: | Bamber, R.N., 2005. Pycnogonids (Arthropoda: Pycnogonida) from the Recherche Archipelago, Western Australia, Australia. In: Wells, F.E. Walker, D.I. Kendrick, G.A., Editors, The Marine Flora and Fauna of Esperance, Western Australia., 2: 325-341. Western Australian Museum, Perth, WA 727pp. |