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CAAB Code:	35 033101 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Styela plicata   (Lesueur, 1823)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 35 - Tunicata Tunicates (ascidians, larvaceans and salps) CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC) Catalogue Number: MIIC-04952 CSIRO Specimen Reference: SS200510_169_019 Survey: SS200510 [details] Date of image: 2005-12-13 00:00 Position: -21.0316° S 114.892° E Depth: 93 metres Image by: Karen Gowlett-Holmes Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA) Rights: CSIRO - Karen Gowlett-Holmes Family: 35 33 Styelidae (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 033916     Styela spp.

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Taxon Notes:	This species is considered to be native to Europe, and has been introduced to many other areas, probably as hull fouling.
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:29d7a66d-02d8-4e0f-99e6-2e72112675bf Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:103936 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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CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC) Catalogue Number: MIIC-04953 CSIRO Specimen Reference: SS200705_097_028 Survey: SS200705 [details] Date: 2007-06-25 Position: -17.7684° S 120.719° E Depth: 109.3 metres Credit: CSIRO - Karen Gowlett-Holmes Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)

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:	Huisiman, J.M., Jones, D.S., Wells, F.E., Burton, T., 2008. Introduced marine biota in Western Australian waters., Records of the Western Australian Museum, Vol. 25: 1-44.