This species has been confused with Polycheles phosphorus in the past (Ahyong & Brown (2002) The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 50(1): 53-79).
Identifiers:
AFD
urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:6597bb9b-d505-454f-8cbf-a434ced109e6
Name status: accepted
Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS
urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:382989
Name status: accepted
Checked on: 2019-01-11
View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS)
(report and map of occurrences)
Ahyong, S.T., 2012. Polychelid lobsters (Decapoda: Polychelida: Polychelidae) collected by the CIDARIS expeditions off central Queensland, with a summary of Australian and New Zealand distributions., Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature, Vol. 56(1): 1-8.