CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

Animalia (kingdom) » Chordata (phylum) » Ascidiacea (class) » Phlebobranchia (order) » Ascidiidae (family)

CAAB Code:	35 002020 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Ascidiella aspersa (Mueller, 1776)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category:	35 - Tunicata Tunicates (ascidians, larvaceans and salps)
Family:	35 2 Ascidiidae (ascidians, sea squirts) - show full list
Common Name:	[an ascidian]
Organism Type:	an ascidian
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified Estuarine
Parent Codes:	35 002902 Ascidiella spp.

Taxon Notes:

This species is native to the Mediterranean, and accidentally introduced into Australian waters, probably by shipping.

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:ce098b73-ac19-4545-ba38-cd5caeb796a9 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:103718 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2022-06-22 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

Record source:	Wells, A. Houston, W. W. K. , Editors, 1998, Zoological catalogue of Australia. Volume 34. Hemichordata, Tunicata, Cephalochordata. CSIRO, East Melbourne
Scientific Name verified against:	Huisiman, J.M., Jones, D.S., Wells, F.E., Burton, T., 2008. Introduced marine biota in Western Australian waters., Records of the Western Australian Museum, Vol. 25: 1-44.

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