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CAAB Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Arthropoda (phylum)  »  Malacostraca (class)  »  Decapoda (order)  »  Majidae (family)

CAAB Code:	28 880087 show as JSON
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
Organism Type:	a spider crab
Identifiers:	World Register of Marine Species urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:442032    Name status: unaccepted    Checked on: 2016-05-12 View at WoRMS    - View potential occurrences at OBIS
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
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.