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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report
Animalia (kingdom) » Arthropoda (phylum) » Malacostraca (class) » Amphipoda (order) » Brachyscelidae (family)
| CAAB Code: | 28 579003 |
| Scientific Name and Authority: | Brachyscelus rapacoides Stephensen, 1925 |
| CAAB category: | 28 - Crustacea - Malacostraca Malacostracans: isopods, amphipods, euphausiids and decapods (prawns, lobsters, crabs, etc.) | |
| Family: | 28 579 Brachyscelidae (hyperiid amphipods) - show full list | |
| Common Name: | [a hyperiid amphipod] | |
| Organism Type: | a hyperiid amphipod | |
| Taxon lists: |
Current Australian list:
 Commercial species list:  Standard Fish Names List: | |
| Regions: |
Australia (inc. subantarctic territories) New Zealand (inc. subantarctic territories) South Pacific (Fiji etc.) Tropical Indo-West Pacific Indian Ocean (non coastal) Southern Ocean (non coastal) | |
| Habitat: |
Marine unspecified | |
| Parent Codes: |
28 579901
Brachyscelus spp. |
Identifiers: |
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| Record source: | Lowry, J.K. Stoddart, H.E., 2003. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Peracarida: Amphipoda, Cumacea, Mysidacea. In Beesley, P.L. Houston, W.W.K., Editors, Zoological Catalogue of Australia, 19.2B: 1-531. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 531pp. |
| Scientific Name verified against: | Zeidler, W. Douek, J. Rinkevich, B. Gevili, R. Goren, M. Galil, B.S., 2018. Validation and redescription of the hyperiidean amphipod Brachyscelus rapacoides Stephensen, 1925 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Hyperiidea: Brachyscelidae), a new record of association with the scyphozoan jellyfish Rhopilema nomadica Galil, 1990 (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae: Rhizostomatidae) in the Mediterranean Sea., Zootaxa, Vol. 4471(3): 523-534. . doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4471.3.5. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4471.3.5 |