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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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CAAB Code:	28 840023 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Galathea whiteleggei   Grant & McCulloch, 1906
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: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 28 840912     Galathea spp.

Taxon Notes:	Many of the records of this species since its original publication, including many from Australia, probably refer to other species, and all need to be re-examined to confirm their identities.
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:4abebf0f-7e3e-4173-9a44-0393a2f07c50 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:392867 Name status: unaccepted    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