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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

Animalia (kingdom)  »  Arthropoda (phylum)  »  Malacostraca (class)  »  Decapoda (order)  »  Chirostylidae (family)

CAAB Code: 28 842906 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority
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Heteropthychus spp.  

Rank: Genus
CAAB category: 28 - Crustacea - Malacostraca Malacostracans: isopods, amphipods, euphausiids and decapods (prawns, lobsters, crabs, etc.)
Family: 28 842 Chirostylidae (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 842911     Chirostylidae
Child Codes: 28 842075     Heteropthychus claudae
28 842076     Heteropthychus colini
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.
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Record source: Baba, K., 2018. Chirostylidae of the Western and Central Pacific: Uroptychus and a new genus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura)., Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Vol. 212. Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos, 30: 1-612.
Scientific Name
verified against
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Schnabel, K.E., 2020. The marine fauna of New Zealand. Squat lobsters (Crustacea, Decapoda, Chirostyloidea)., NIWA Biodiversity Memoir, Vol. 132: 1-351.
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