CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

Animalia (kingdom) » Arthropoda (phylum) » Malacostraca (class) » Euphausiacea (order) » Euphausiidae (family)

CAAB Code:	28 702000 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Euphausiidae
Rank:	Family

CAAB category:	28 - Crustacea - Malacostraca Malacostracans: isopods, amphipods, euphausiids and decapods (prawns, lobsters, crabs, etc.)
Family:	28 702 Euphausiidae (euphausiids, krill) - show full list
Common Name:	euphausiids
Common Names List:	krill
Organism Type:	a euphausiid
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	28 700000 Euphausiacea
Child Codes:	28 702901 Euphausia spp. 28 702902 Nematobrachion spp. 28 702903 Nematoscelis spp. 28 702904 Nyctiphanes spp. 28 702905 Pseudeuphausia spp. 28 702906 Stylocheiron spp. 28 702907 Thysanoessa spp. 28 702908 Thysanopoda spp.

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Occurrence locations [15] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records

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:cf7904f9-8441-476b-bac3-41f3342dce1d Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:110671 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2018-07-13 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

Scientific Name verified against:	Vereshchaka, A.L., Kulagin, D.N., Lunina, A.A., 2019. A phylogenetic study of krill (Crustacea: Euphausiacea) reveals new taxa and co-evolution of morphological characters., Cladistics, Vol. 35: 150-172. . doi.org/10.1111/cla.12239 doi:10.1111/cla.12239

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