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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report
Animalia (kingdom) »
Arthropoda (phylum)
» Malacostraca (class)
» Decapoda (order)
» Alpheidae (family)
CAAB Code :
28 765001
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Scientific Name and Authority :
Alpheus villosus
(Olivier, 1811)
Rank : Species
CAAB category :
28 -
Crustacea - Malacostraca Malacostracans: isopods, amphipods, euphausiids and decapods (prawns, lobsters, crabs, etc.)
CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC)
Catalogue Number: MIIC-03267
CSIRO Specimen Reference: SS200705_085_105 Survey: SS200705 [details ] Date of image: 21-June-2007 00:00 Position: -18.4253° 120.099° Depth: 104.8 metresImage by : Karen Gowlett-HolmesLicence : Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)Rights : CSIRO - Karen Gowlett-Holmes
Family :
28 765 Alpheidae (snapping shrimps|pistol prawns) - show full list
Common Name : hairy pistol prawn
Common Names List : pistol prawn shaggy pistol shrimp snapping shrimp
Organism Type : a snapping shrimp
Taxon lists :
Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat :
Marine unspecified
Parent Codes :
28 765901
Alpheus spp.
Distribution map :
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Identifiers :
AFD
urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:cf4765bd-0c8a-4318-b8ee-a01335f0b838
Name status: accepted
Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
Cleveland
K2040102
MoV
1672
WoRMS
urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:514989
Name status: accepted
Checked on: 2019-01-11
View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS)
(report and map of occurrences )
Images :
CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC)
Catalogue Number: MIIC-03267
CSIRO Specimen Reference: SS200705_085_105 Survey: SS200705 [details ] Date: 21-June-2007 Position: -18.4253° 120.099° Depth: 104.8 metres Credit: CSIRO - Karen Gowlett-Holmes Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
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.