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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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CAAB Code:	28 815021 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Willemoesia forceps   A. Milne Edwards, 1880
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 deep sea lobster] Organism Type: a deep sea lobster Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 28 815904     Willemoesia spp.

Taxon Notes:	Also known from the Atlantic Ocean.
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:38b0d588-9b2c-4ede-9a2a-81e9e8662c83 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:107701 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 and Scientific Name verified against:

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.