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CAAB Taxon Report
Animalia (kingdom) » Arthropoda (phylum) » Malacostraca (class) » Decapoda (order) » Portunidae (family)
| CAAB Code: | 28 911030 |
| Scientific Name and Authority: | Xiphonectes hastatoides (Fabricius, 1798) |
| CAAB category: | 28 - Crustacea - Malacostraca Malacostracans: isopods, amphipods, euphausiids and decapods (prawns, lobsters, crabs, etc.) | Distribution map: |
| Family: | Portunidae (swimmer crabs) - show full list | |
| Common Name: | [a swimmer crab] | |
| Recent Synonyms: | Portunus (Xiphonectes) hastatoides | |
| Taxon lists: |
Current Australian list:
 Commercial species list:  Standard Fish Names List: | |
| Regions: |
Australia (inc. subantarctic territories) South Pacific (Fiji etc.) Tropical Indo-West Pacific Indian Ocean (non coastal) | |
| Habitat: |
Marine unspecified | |
| Parent Codes: |
28 911928
Xiphonectes spp. | |
| Organism Type: | a swimmer crab |
Identifiers: |
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| Record source: | Ng, P.K.L., 1998. Crabs. In: Carpenter, K.E. Niem, V.H., Editors, FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes. The living marine resources of the Western Central Pacific., 2: 1045-1155. FAO, Rome |
| Scientific Name verified against: | Spiridonov, V.A. Neretina, T.V. Schepetov, D., 2014. Morphological characterization and molecular phylogeny of Portunoidea Rafinesque, 1815 (Crustacea Brachyura): Implications for understanding evolution of swimming capacity and revision of the family-level classification., Zoologischer Anzeiger, Vol. 253: 404-429. . dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2014.03.003. doi:10.1016/j.jcz.2014.03.003 |