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CAAB Taxon Report

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CAAB Code:	28 840018 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Galathea latirostris    Dana, 1852
CAAB category:	28 - Crustacea - Malacostraca
Family:	Galatheidae (squat lobsters) - show full list
Common Name:	[a squat lobster]
Organism Type:	a squat lobster
Taxon Notes:	This species is currently only reliably known from the Fiji region. Any records of this species from elsewhere, including Australia, need to be re-examined to confirm their identity.
Parent Codes:	28 825908     Infraorder Anomura: Superfamily Galatheoidea - undifferentiated 28 840000     Galatheidae, Munididae & Munidopsidae - undifferentiated
Identifiers:	World Register of Marine Species urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:392239    Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-05-11 View at WoRMS    - View potential occurrences at OBIS
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Species not on current Australian list, but occuring in adjacent region: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Regions:	South Pacific (Fiji etc.)
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Record source:	Davie, P.J.F., 2002. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Eucarida (Part 2): Decapoda - Anomura, Brachyura. In: Wells, A. Houston, W.W.K., Editors, Zoological Catalogue of Australia., 19.3B. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 641pp.
Scientific Name verified against:	Macpherson, E. Robainas-Barcia, A., 2015. Species of the genus Galathea Fabricius, 1793 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Galatheidae) from the Indian and Pacific Oceans, with descriptions of 92 new species., Zootaxa, Vol. 3913: 1-335. . doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3913.1.1