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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report
Animalia (kingdom) » Chordata (phylum) » Ascidiacea (class) » Aplousobranchia (order) » Didemnidae (family)
CAAB Code: | 35 013000 |
Scientific Name and Authority: | Didemnidae |
CAAB category: | 35 - Tunicata Tunicates (ascidians, larvaceans and salps) |
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Family: | 35 13 Didemnidae (ascidians, sea squirts) - show full list | |
Common Name: | ascidians | |
Common Names List: | tunicates sea squirts | |
Organism Type: | an ascidian | |
Taxon lists: |
Current Australian list:
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Habitat: |
Marine unspecified | |
Child Codes: |
35 013901
Atriolum spp. 35 013902 Clitella spp. 35 013903 Didemnum spp. 35 013904 Diplosoma spp. 35 013905 Leptoclinides spp. 35 013906 Lissoclinum spp. 35 013907 Polysyncraton spp. 35 013908 Trididemnum 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. | ||||||
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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: | Oliveira, F.A.D.S. Michonneau, F. Lotufo, T.M.D.C., 2017. Molecular phylogeny of Didemnidae (Ascidiacea: Tunicata)., Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Vol. 180: 603-612. |