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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 | ||
Organism Type: | a spider crab | ||
Identifiers: |
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Taxon lists: |
Current Australian list:
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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. |
Record details
Record entered on 31-Oct-2002 00:00 by Karen Gowlett-Holmes
Record modified on 8-Jun-2016 13:32 by Karen Gowlett-Holmes
Modification description: update genus
Modification history:
08-JUN-2016: update genus (Karen Gowlett-Holmes)
(previous genus name: Maja)
(previous authority: Walker)
Record modified on 8-Jun-2016 13:32 by Karen Gowlett-Holmes
Modification description: update genus
Modification history:
08-JUN-2016: update genus (Karen Gowlett-Holmes)
(previous genus name: Maja)
(previous authority: Walker)