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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Arthropoda (phylum)  »  Malacostraca (class)  »  Decapoda (order)  »  Parastacidae (family)

CAAB Code:	28 795007 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Cherax cainii   Austin, 2002
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 28 - Crustacea - Malacostraca Malacostracans: isopods, amphipods, euphausiids and decapods (prawns, lobsters, crabs, etc.) Photographic Index of Australian Fishes (PIAF) Image by: CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA) Rights: CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection Family: 28 795 Parastacidae (freshwater crayfish, yabbies) - show full list Common Name (AS5300): Marron Common Names List: marron commercial marron smooth marron Organism Type: a freshwater crayfish or yabby Synonyms: Cherax tenuimanus Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Freshwater Parent Codes: 28 795903     Cherax spp. Previous Codes (if any): 00 704004, 704004

Taxon Notes:	This code replaces previous (interim) CAAB code 00 704004 (FISHLIST 704004).
Scientific Name Notes:	The status of this name is currently under review by the ICZN (case 3267). This is the commercial marron, originally endemic to southwestern Western Australia, but widely used in aquaculture in southern Australia and now feral in many areas. Previously known as Cherax tenuimanus, this name has been shown to apply only to a small population from the Margaret River (Austin & Ryan 2002), and the main commercial marron now has the new name C. cainii. Recent work has shown high hybridization rates between the two, and cast doubt their status as distinct species (see de Graaf, Lawrence & Vercoe, 2009, Crustaceana, 82:1469-1476).
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:390edde9-922e-4860-9c11-0ad60f722f2e Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:885543 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2017-02-10 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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Photographic Index of Australian Fishes (PIAF) Credit: CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection 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:	Austin, C.M., Ryan, S.G., 2002. Allozyme evidence for a new species of freshwater crafish of the genus Cherax Erichson (Decapoda: Parastacidae) from the south-west of Western Australia., Invertebrate Systematics, Vol. 16: 357-367.