Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report
- CAAB Code
- 28 803000 Show as JSON
- Scientific Name & Authority
- Callianassidae, Eucalliacidae, Callichiridae
- Rank
- Family
- CAAB category
- 28 - Crustacea - Malacostraca Malacostracans: isopods, amphipods, euphausiids and decapods (prawns, lobsters, crabs, etc.)
- Family
- 28 803 (slow prawns) - show full list
- Common Name
- slow prawns
- Common Names List
- mud yabbies
ghost shrimps - Organism Type
- a slow prawn
- Taxon lists
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Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
- Habitat
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Marine unspecified
Estuarine - Parent Codes
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28 708000
Decapoda
- Child Codes
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28 803921
Callianassidae
28 803923 Callichiridae
28 803922 Eucalliacidae
- 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
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Australian Faunal Directory (AFD) urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:eafa00ab-95c6-48f7-9618-701c1dae0d68
Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living AustraliaWorld Register of Marine Species urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:106800
Name status: accepted Checked on: 2017-06-23
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
- Scientific Name verified against
- Poore, G.C.B., Dworschak, P.C., Robles, R., Mantelatto, F.L., Felder, D.L., 2019. A new classification of Callianassidae and related families (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea) derived from a molecular phylogeny with morphological support., Memoirs of Museum Victoria, Vol. 78: 73-146. . doi.org/10.24199/j.mmv.2019.78.05 doi:10.24199/j.mmv.2019.78.05