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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 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Anoplodactylus angulatus   (Dohrn, 1881)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 33 - Tardigrada, Pentastomida, Pycnogonida plus minor Arthropod groups minor invertebrate phyla plus scorpions, spiders, sea spiders, horseshoe crabs Family: 33 15 Phoxichilidiidae (pycnogonids) - show full list Common Name: [a pycnogonid] Organism Type: a pycnogonid Synonyms: Anoplodactylus pycnosoma (mis-identification) Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 33 015901     Anoplodactylus spp.

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.
Identifiers:	WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:134714 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-05-11 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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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.