CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

Animalia (kingdom) » Arthropoda (phylum) » Malacostraca (class) » Amphipoda (order) » Protorchestiidae (family)

CAAB Code:	28 477907 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Microrchestia spp.
Rank:	Genus

CAAB category:	28 - Crustacea - Malacostraca Malacostracans: isopods, amphipods, euphausiids and decapods (prawns, lobsters, crabs, etc.)
Family:	28 477 Protorchestiidae (amphipods) - show full list
Common Name:	[an amphipod]
Organism Type:	an amphipod
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified Estuarine Coastal (0-40m)
Parent Codes:	28 477935 Protorchestiidae
Child Codes:	28 477017 Microrchestia bousfieldi 28 477034 Microrchestia ntensis 28 477018 Microrchestia watsonae

Taxon Notes:

This code is provided for use when identification of a specimen to this level is sufficient, or when no further detail is available.

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:9ca4302e-c361-4f4b-8f2b-0a9a7079ebf1 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia

Record source:	Lowry, J.K., Springthorpe, R.T., 2015. Coastal Talitridae (Amphipoda: Talitroidea) from north-western Australia to Darwin with a revision of the genus Cochinorchestia Lowry & Peart, 2010., Zootaxa, Vol. 3985(2): 151-202.
Scientific Name verified against:	Myers, A.A., Lowry, J.K., 2020. A phylogeny and classification of the Talitroidea (Amphipoda, Senticaudata) based on interpretation of morphological synapomorphies and homoplasies., Zootaxa, Vol. 4778(2): 281-310. . doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4778.2.3 doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4778.2.3

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