CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

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

CAAB Code:	28 804000 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Micheleidae
Rank:	Family

CAAB category:	28 - Crustacea - Malacostraca Malacostracans: isopods, amphipods, euphausiids and decapods (prawns, lobsters, crabs, etc.)
Family:	28 804 Micheleidae (slow prawns) - show full list
Common Name:	slow prawns
Common Names List:	mud yabbies ghost shrimps
Organism Type:	a slow prawn
Synonyms:	Meticonaxiidae
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	28 708000 Decapoda
Child Codes:	28 804901 Meticonaxius spp. 28 804902 Michelea spp. 28 804903 Tethisea spp.

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:a2c901ba-e9db-4e29-9a1e-755d6c958b8f Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia

Scientific Name verified against:	Poore, G.C.B., Collins, D.J., 2015. Micheleidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea): new family, generic and species synonymies, three new Australian species., Memoirs of Museum Victoria, Vol. 73: 95-105.

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