CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota - Taxon report

Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

CAAB Code
28 315000 Show as JSON
Scientific Name & Authority
Desmosomatidae  
Rank
Family
CAAB category
28 - Crustacea - Malacostraca Malacostracans: isopods, amphipods, euphausiids and decapods (prawns, lobsters, crabs, etc.)
Family
28 315 Desmosomatidae (isopods) - show full list
Common Name
isopods
Organism Type
an isopod
Taxon lists
Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat
Marine unspecified
Parent Codes
28 200000     Isopoda
Child Codes
28 315913     Balbidocolon spp.
28 315901     Chelantermedia spp.
28 315910     Chelator spp.
28 315902     Disparella spp.
28 315903     Echinopleura spp.
28 315909     Eugerda spp.
28 315911     Eugerdella spp.
28 315912     Mirabilicoxa spp.
28 315904     Oecidiobranchus spp.
28 315905     Paradesmosoma spp.
28 315914     Parvochelus spp.
28 315906     Prochelator spp.
28 315907     Pseudomesus spp.
28 315915     Torwolia spp.
28 315908     Whoia spp.
Taxon Notes
This code is provided for use when identification of a specimen to family level is sufficient, or when no further detail is available.
Identifiers
Australian Faunal Directory (AFD) urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:284ef1cf-ec72-4a4e-a569-8fda2d2c847c
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
World Register of Marine Species urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:118250
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2020-08-24
View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
Record source
Brix, S., 2006. A new genus and new species of Desmosomatidae (Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellota) from the deep sea of south-eastern Australia., Memoirs of Museum Victoria, Vol. 63(2): 175-205.