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CAAB Taxon Report
Animalia (kingdom) » Arthropoda (phylum) » Malacostraca (class) » Decapoda (order) » Majidae (family)
| CAAB Code: | 28 880087 |
| Scientific Name and Authority: | Holthuija miersii (Walker, 1887) |
| CAAB category: | 28 - Crustacea - Malacostraca | |
| Family: | Majidae (spider crabs) - show full list | |
| Common Name: | [a spider crab] | |
| Recent Synonyms: | Maja miersii | |
| Taxon lists: |
Current Australian list:
 Commercial species list:  Standard Fish Names List: | |
| Regions: |
Australia (inc. subantarctic territories) Tropical Indo-Pacific (countries N/NE Australia) | |
| Habitat: |
Marine unspecified | |
| Parent Codes: |
28 880904
Holthuija spp. | |
| Organism Type: | a spider crab |
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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: | Ng, P.K.L. Richer de Forges, B., 2015. Revision of the spider crab genus Maja Lamarck, 1801 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Majoidea: Majidae), with descriptions of seven new genera and 17 new species from the Atlantic and Indo-West Pacific., The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Vol. 63: 110-225. |