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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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CAAB Code:	35 031022 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Molgula herdmanina   Monniot & Dettai, 2015
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 35 - Tunicata Tunicates (ascidians, larvaceans and salps) Family: 35 31 Molgulidae (ascidians, sea squirts) - show full list Common Name: [an ascidian (sea squirt)] Organism Type: an ascidian (sea squirt) Synonyms: Molgula pedunculata Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Species not on current Australian list, but occuring in subantarctic/Antarctic waters: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 35 031902     Molgula spp.

Taxon Notes:	This species is found mainly around the Kerguelen area.
Scientific Name Notes:	This is a replacement name for Molgula pedunculata Herdman, 1881, which is a different species to (and preoccupied by) M. pedunculata (Herdman, 1881), originally described as Ascopera pedunculata. See Monniot & Dattai, 2015.
Identifiers:	WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:863355 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-08-08 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:

Monniot, F., Dettai, A., 2015. Pedunculate Molgula species (Ascidiidae, Molgulidae) from the French Antarctic sector. Redescription and taxonomic revision., Zootaxa, Vol. 3920(1): 171-197.