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Animalia (kingdom) » Arthropoda (phylum) » Malacostraca (class) » Euphausiacea (order) » Euphausiidae (family)

CAAB Code:	28 702000 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Euphausiidae - undifferentiated

CAAB category:	28 - Crustacea - Malacostraca	Distribution map: Occurrence locations shown as circles - View CSIRO Catch records
Family:	Euphausiidae (euphausiids, krill) - show full list
Common Name:	euphausiids
Common Names List:	euphausiids krill
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	28 700000 Order Euphausiacea - undifferentiated
Child Codes:	28 702901 Euphausia spp. 28 702902 Nematobrachion spp. 28 702903 Nematoscelis spp. 28 702904 Nyctiphanes spp. 28 702905 Pseudeuphausia spp. 28 702906 Stylocheiron spp. 28 702907 Thysanoessa spp. 28 702908 Thysanopoda spp.
Organism Type:	a euphausiid

Taxon Notes:

This code is provided for use when identification of a specimen to this level is sufficient, or when no further detail is available.

Identifiers:

Australian Faunal Directory (AFD)	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:cf7904f9-8441-476b-bac3-41f3342dce1d Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
World Register of Marine Species	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:110671 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2018-07-13 View at WoRMS - also at OBIS (report and map of occurrences)

Scientific Name verified against:	Vereshchaka, A.L. Kulagin, D.N. Lunina, A.A., 2019. A phylogenetic study of krill (Crustacea: Euphausiacea) reveals new taxa and co-evolution of morphological characters., Cladistics, Vol. 35: 150-172. . doi.org/10.1111/cla.12239

CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report