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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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CAAB Code:	28 840000 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Galatheidae, Munididae & Munidopsidae
Rank:	Genus

CAAB category: 28 - Crustacea - Malacostraca Malacostracans: isopods, amphipods, euphausiids and decapods (prawns, lobsters, crabs, etc.) Family: 28 840 (squat lobsters) - show full list Common Name: squat lobsters Common Names List: craylets Organism Type: a squat lobster Synonyms: Galatheidae Munididae Munidopsidae Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 28 708000     Decapoda

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Taxon Notes:	This code is provided for use when identification of a specimen to this level is sufficient, or when no further detail is available.
Scientific Name Notes:	Originally a single family, the Galatheidae has recently been recognised as polyphyletic, and has now been split into several distinct families, see Ahyong et al., 2010.
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:eeeabe28-9a00-4393-8d7c-5199e2b33776 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia Cleveland K2041800 WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:106733 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2017-06-23 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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Ahyong, S.T., Baba, K., Macpherson, E., Poore, G.C.B., 2010. A new classification of the Galatheoidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura)., Zootaxa, Vol. 2676: 57-68.