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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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CAAB Code:	35 031023 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Molgula gigantea   (Cunningham, 1871)
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] Organism Type: an ascidian Synonyms: Molgula pedunculata (mis-identification) Ascopera gigantea Molgula maxima 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 has previously been confused with both M. pedunculata s.s. and M. herdmanina (as M. pedunculata). See Monniot & Dettai, 2015.
Identifiers:	WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:254154 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.