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CAAB Taxon Report
Animalia (kingdom) » Arthropoda (phylum) » Malacostraca (class) » Decapoda (order) » Palinuridae (family)
| CAAB Code: | 28 820005 |
| Scientific Name and Authority: | Panulirus cygnus George, 1962 |
| CAAB category: | 28 - Crustacea - Malacostraca Malacostracans: isopods, amphipods, euphausiids and decapods (prawns, lobsters, crabs, etc.) | Distribution map: |
Credit: CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA) @CSIRO 2021 | ||
| Family: | Palinuridae (spiny lobsters) - show full list | |
| Common Name: | Western Rock Lobster | |
| Common Names List: | western rock lobster western rocklobster | |
| Taxon lists: |
Current Australian list:
 Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
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| Regions: |
Australia (inc. subantarctic territories) | |
| Habitat: |
Marine unspecified | |
| Parent Codes: |
28 820905
Panulirus spp. | |
| Organism Type: | a spiny lobster |
| Taxon Notes: | This code replaces previous (interim) CAAB code 00 703999 (FISHLIST 703999). | ||||||
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| 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: | WoRMS, WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species. . Available from http: www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ. |