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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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CAAB Code:	28 840022 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Galathea ternatensis   de Man, 1902
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 28 - Crustacea - Malacostraca Malacostracans: isopods, amphipods, euphausiids and decapods (prawns, lobsters, crabs, etc.) Family: 28 840 Galatheidae (squat lobsters) - show full list Common Name: [a squat lobster] Organism Type: a squat lobster Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Species not on current Australian list, but occuring in adjacent region: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 28 840912     Galathea spp.

Taxon Notes:	This species is currently not known with certainty from Australian waters, and many previous records of this species may now be referable to other species. All previous records from this region need to be re-examined to confirm their identity.
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:26097418-a38b-4499-8af3-5ce31c637c04 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:392263 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-05-11 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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Record source:	Davie, P.J.F., 2002. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Eucarida (Part 2): Decapoda - Anomura, Brachyura. In: Wells, A. Houston, W.W.K., Editors, Zoological Catalogue of Australia., 19.3B. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 641pp.
Scientific Name verified against:	Macpherson, E., Robainas-Barcia, A., 2015. Species of the genus Galathea Fabricius, 1793 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Galatheidae) from the Indian and Pacific Oceans, with descriptions of 92 new species., Zootaxa, Vol. 3913: 1-335. . doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3913.1.1 doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3913.1.1