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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report
Animalia (kingdom) » Arthropoda (phylum) » Malacostraca (class) » Decapoda (order) » Munidopsidae (family)
CAAB Code: | 28 840059 |
Scientific Name and Authority: | Munidopsis serricornis (Lovén, 1852) |
Rank: | Species |
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Taxon Notes: | This species was previously considered to be widespread in the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific Oceans, but is now considered to be restricted to the Atlantic Ocean. All records of this species from the Indo-Pacific region belong to other species, and need to be examined to determine their true identity. See Ahyong, 2014. | ||||||
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Record source: | Ahyong, S.T., Poore, G.C.B., 2004. Deep-water Galatheidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) from southern and eastern Australia ., Zootaxa, Vol. 472: 1-76. |
Scientific Name verified against: | Ahyong, S.T., 2014. Deep-sea squat lobsters of the Munidopsis serricornis complex in the Indo-West Pacific, with descriptions of six new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Munidopsidae)., Records of the Australian Museum, Vol. 66(3): 197-216. |