CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

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

CAAB Code:	35 018014 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Eudistoma elongatum (Herdman, 1886)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category:	35 - Tunicata Tunicates (ascidians, larvaceans and salps)
Family:	35 18 Polycitoridae (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
Parent Codes:	35 018904 Eudistoma spp.

Taxon Notes:

This Australian species has recently been accidentally to New Zealand where it has become established. See Page et al, 2014.

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:6e251ea0-2cf5-4b2b-8660-e861c75ea1df Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:250210 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2016-05-11 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:	Page, M.J., Willis, T.J., Handley, S.J., 2014. The colonial ascidian fauna of Fiordland, New Zealand, with a description of two new species., Journal of Natural History, Vol. 48(27-28): 1653-1688.

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