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

CAAB Code:	28 815015 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Stereomastis surda (Galil, 2000)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category:	28 - Crustacea - Malacostraca Malacostracans: isopods, amphipods, euphausiids and decapods (prawns, lobsters, crabs, etc.)
Family:	28 815 Polychelidae (blind and soft-bodied deep-sea lobsters) - show full list
Common Name:	[a polychelid lobster]
Organism Type:	a polychelid lobster
Synonyms:	Polycheles surdus Stereomastis phosphorus (mis-identification) Polycheles phosphorus (mis-identification)
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	28 815903 Stereomastis spp.

Taxon Notes:

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:327d3ce8-d9a3-47ba-bbd9-c18d54883641 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:383001 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2017-02-11 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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:	Chan, T.-Y., 2010. Annotated checklist of the world's marine lobsters (Crustacea: Decapoda: Astacidea, Glypheidea, Achelata, Polychelida)., The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Vol. Suppl. 23: 153-181.

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