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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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CAAB Code:	28 548010 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Podocerus brasilensis   (Dana, 1853)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 28 - Crustacea - Malacostraca Malacostracans: isopods, amphipods, euphausiids and decapods (prawns, lobsters, crabs, etc.) Family: 28 548 Podoceridae (amphipods) - show full list Common Name: [an amphipod] Organism Type: an amphipod Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Special purpose listing - see taxon notes Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 28 548904     Podocerus spp.

Taxon Notes:	This is a wide-spread species associated with hull fouling, originally described from Brazil, and may have been introduced to many areas by shipping. This species is not currently known from Australian waters - previous Australian records of this species (eg Kilgallen, 2009) were mis-identifications of the native species Podocerus lobatus, see Hughes, 2013.
Identifiers:	WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:214744 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-06-21 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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Record source:	Kilgallen, N.M., 2009. Benthic Amphipoda (Crustacea: Peracarida) of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Podoceridae., Zootaxa, Vol. 2260: 841-860.
Scientific Name verified against:	Hughes, L.E., 2013. Podoceridae of tropical Australia (Peracarida: Amphipoda)., Records of the Australian Museum, Vol. 65(1): 1-37.