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Taxon Notes:
Eastern Australian material of this species was mis-identified as Uroptychus gracilimanus by Ahyong & Poore, 2004. Western Australian material originally identified as this species by Ahyong & Baba (2004) is now recognised as a new species, Uroptychus michaeli, see Ahyong & Baba, 2017.
Identifiers:
AFD
urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:82e4fcd1-3d20-4f90-830e-b5946009317e
Name status: accepted
Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS
urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:392102
Name status: accepted
Checked on: 2020-01-08
View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS)
(report and map of occurrences)
Ahyong, S.T., Poore, G.C.B., 2004. The Chirostylidae of southern Australia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura)., Zootaxa, Vol. 436: 1-88.
Scientific Name verified against:
Ahyong, S.T., Baba, K., 2017. Uroptychus michaeli (Decapoda, Chirostylidae), a new species of deep-water squat lobster from north-western Australia and Taiwan., Crustaceana, Vol. 90(7-10): 799-806. . doi:10.1163/15685403-00003617 doi:10.1163/15685403-00003617