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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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CAAB Code:	35 032041 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Pyura praeputialis   (Heller, 1878)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 35 - Tunicata Tunicates (ascidians, larvaceans and salps) Family: 35 32 Pyuridae (ascidians, sea squirts) - show full list Common Name: cunjuvoi Common Names List: cunjevoi Organism Type: an ascidian Synonyms: Pyura stolonifera Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 35 032901     Pyura spp.

Taxon Notes:	This species was previously known as Pyura stolonifera, but the latter is now considered to be a species complex, and P. stolonifera s.s. is restricted to southern Africa. P. praeputialis is native to eastern Australia. See Rius & Teske, 2013.
Identifiers:	MoV 1693 WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:251292 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-05-12 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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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:	Rius, M., Teske, P.R., 2013. Cryptic diversity in coastal Australasia: a morphological and mitonuculear genetic analysis of habitat-forming sibling species., Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Vol. 168: 597-611.