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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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CAAB Code:	35 013294 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Didemnum vexillum   Kott, 2002
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 35 - Tunicata Tunicates (ascidians, larvaceans and salps) Family: 35 13 Didemnidae (ascidians, sea squirts) - show full list Common Name: [an ascidian (sea squirt)] Organism Type: an ascidian (sea squirt) Synonyms: Didemnum vestum Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 35 013903     Didemnum spp.

Taxon Notes:	This invasive species, which was described from New Zealand but is probably native to Japan, has recently been recorded from southern New South Wales. It has also been widely recorded from North America and Europe, and is regarded as a pest species as it grows rapidly and will smother other sessile marine life.
Identifiers:	AFD NZOR-6-4554 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:250126 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-01-11 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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Record source and Scientific Name verified against:

Kott, P., 2002. A complex didemnid ascidian from Whangamata, New Zealand., Journal of Marine Biology Association of the United Kingdom, Vol. 82: 625-628.