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CAAB Taxon Report
Animalia (kingdom) » Arthropoda (phylum) » Malacostraca (class) » Decapoda (order) » Galatheidae (family)
CAAB Code: | 28 840018 | ||
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: |
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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 |
Record details
Record entered on 24-Sep-2002 00:00 by Karen Gowlett-Holmes
Record modified on 24-Mar-2016 10:16 by Karen Gowlett-Holmes
Modification description: updated
Modification history:
25-JAN-2011: updated (Karen Gowlett-Holmes)
(previous family sequence: 1)
24-MAR-2016: updated (Karen Gowlett-Holmes)
Record modified on 24-Mar-2016 10:16 by Karen Gowlett-Holmes
Modification description: updated
Modification history:
25-JAN-2011: updated (Karen Gowlett-Holmes)
(previous family sequence: 1)
24-MAR-2016: updated (Karen Gowlett-Holmes)