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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] | |
| 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 | |
| Parent Codes: |
28 840912
Galathea spp. | |
| 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. | ||||
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| 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 |