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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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

CAAB Code: 28 801000 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority
:

Axiidae  

Rank: Family
CAAB category: 28 - Crustacea - Malacostraca Malacostracans: isopods, amphipods, euphausiids and decapods (prawns, lobsters, crabs, etc.)
Family: 28 801 Axiidae (slow prawns) - show full list
Common Name: slow prawns
Common Names List: mud yabbies
ghost shrimps
Organism Type: a slow prawn
Synonyms: Calocarididae
Eiconaxiidae
Eiconaxiopsididae
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Marine unspecified
Estuarine
Parent Codes: 28 708000     Decapoda
Child Codes: 28 801902     Acanthaxius spp.
28 801903     Alienaxiopsis spp.
28 801921     Allaxiopsis spp.
28 801901     Ambiaxius spp.
28 801904     Australocaris spp.
28 801905     Axiopsis spp.
28 801906     Axius spp.
28 801907     Bouvieraxius spp.
28 801922     Bruceaxius spp.
28 801908     Calastacus spp.
28 801909     Calaxius spp.
28 801923     Calocarides spp.
28 801925     Calocaris spp.
28 801910     Dorphinaxius spp.
28 801911     Eiconaxius spp.
28 801926     Eucalastacus spp.
28 801912     Michelaxiopsis spp.
28 801913     Oxyrhynchaxius spp.
28 801920     Parascytoleptus spp.
28 801914     Paraxiopsis spp.
28 801915     Pilbaraxius spp.
28 801916     Planaxius spp.
28 801917     Platyaxius spp.
28 801924     Pseudoaxiopsis spp.
28 801918     Scytoleptus spp.
28 801919     Spongiaxius spp.
Previous Codes
(if any)
:
28 798000
Taxon Notes:This code is provided for use when identification of a specimen to family level is sufficient, or when no further detail is available.

Identifiers:
AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:5d683147-0c3a-4380-8dca-b2e249ac6001
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
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Record source: Poore, G.C.B., Collins, D.J., 2009. Australian Axiidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea)., Memoirs of Museum Victoria, Vol. 66: 221-287.
Scientific Name
verified against
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Poore, G.C.B., 2017. Synonymy and problematic species of Eiconaxius Spence Bate, 1888, with descriptions of new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea: Axiidae)., Zootaxa, Vol. 4231(3): 364-376. . doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4231.3.4 doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4231.3.4
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