CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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

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)

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.

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