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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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CAAB Code:	28 470906 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Metopoides spp.
Rank:	Genus

CAAB category: 28 - Crustacea - Malacostraca Malacostracans: isopods, amphipods, euphausiids and decapods (prawns, lobsters, crabs, etc.) Family: 28 470 Stenothoidae (amphipods) - show full list Common Name: [an amphipod] Organism Type: an amphipod Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 28 470000     Stenothoidae Child Codes: 28 470033     Metopoides bellansantiniae 28 470034     Metopoides ellipticus 28 470035     Metopoides pollex 28 470031     Metopoides rotundus 28 470030     Metopoides typicus

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:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:a379c57f-721b-496e-846c-d3297e12d94e Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia

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Scientific Name verified against:

Krapp-Schickel, T., 2009. On the Austral-Antarctic stenothoids Proboloides, Metopoides, Torometopa and Scaphodactylus (Crustacea Amphipoda) Part 1: genus Metopoides., Zoosystematics and Evolution, Vol. 85(1): 93-115.