CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

Animalia (kingdom) » Chordata (phylum) » Ascidiacea (class) » Aplousobranchia (order) » Didemnidae (family)

CAAB Code:	35 013000 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Didemnidae
Rank:	Family

CAAB category:	35 - Tunicata Tunicates (ascidians, larvaceans and salps)
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: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
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.

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Occurrence locations [25] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records

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:

Australian Faunal Directory (AFD)	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:90684d80-3507-40e3-8766-e8fb49e53dc9 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
Cleveland (CSIRO)	S1010400
World Register of Marine Species	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:103439 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2022-06-23 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:	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.

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