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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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CAAB Code:	28 815016 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Stereomastis galil   (Ahyong & Brown, 2002)
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 galil Steromastis andamanensis (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 Stereomastis andamanensis and 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:484f665a-7460-4b3f-ac53-60b266f52efe Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:382994 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-05-12 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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Record source:	Ahyong, S.T., Brown, D.E., 2002. New species and new records of Polychelidae from Australia (Crustacea: Decapoda)., The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Vol. 50(1): 53-79.
Scientific Name verified against:	Galil, B.S., 2013. On a collection of Polychelidae from Papua New Guinea (Crustacea, Decapoda, Polychelida)., Zoosystema, Vol. 35(4): 495-502.