Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report
- CAAB Code
- 28 711021 Show as JSON
- Scientific Name & Authority
- Metapenaeopsis wellsi Racek, 1967
- Rank
- Species
- CAAB category
- 28 - Crustacea - Malacostraca Malacostracans: isopods, amphipods, euphausiids and decapods (prawns, lobsters, crabs, etc.)
- Image
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CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC)- Catalogue Number
- MIIC-02877
- CSIRO Specimen Reference:
- SS200705_117_035
- Survey:
- SS200705 [details]
- Date of image:
- 2007-07-01 00:00
- Position:
- -16.7402° S 121.032° E
- Depth:
- 112.2 metres
- Image by:
- Karen Gowlett-Holmes
- Licence:
- Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
- Rights:
- CSIRO - Karen Gowlett-Holmes
- Family
- 28 711 Penaeidae (penaeid prawns) - show full list
- Common Name
- coral prawn
- Common Names List
- velvet shrimp
- Organism Type
- a penaeid prawn
- Taxon lists
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Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
- Habitat
-
Marine unspecified
- Parent Codes
-
28 711913
Metapenaeopsis spp.
- Previous Codes
(if any) - 00 701316, 701316
- Taxon Notes
- This code replaces previous (interim) CAAB code 00 701316 (FISHLIST 701316).
- Identifiers
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Australian Faunal Directory (AFD) urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:78fc2531-49d1-40c2-9720-f76a9af309e9
Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living AustraliaITIS (USA) 551643
View at ITISWorld Register of Marine Species urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:377531
Name status: accepted Checked on: 2016-05-11
View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)
- Distribution Map
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View detailed map

Occurrence locations [1] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records
- Other Images
- Record source
- Davie, P.J.F., 2002. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Phyllocarida, Hoplocarida, Eucarida (Part 1). In: Wells, A. Houston, W.W.K., Editors, Zoological Catalogue of Australia., 19.3A. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 551pp.
- Scientific Name verified against
- De Grave, S., Fransen, C.H.J.M., 2011. Carideorum Catalogus: The Recent species of the dendrobranchiate, stenopodidean, procarididean and caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda)., Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden, Vol. 85(9): 195-589.