CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

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CAAB Code:	28 845000 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Albuneidae
Rank:	Family

CAAB category:	28 - Crustacea - Malacostraca Malacostracans: isopods, amphipods, euphausiids and decapods (prawns, lobsters, crabs, etc.)
Family:	28 845 Albuneidae (mole crabs) - show full list
Common Name:	mole crabs
Common Names List:	sand crabs
Organism Type:	a mole crab
Synonyms:	Albunidae
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	28 708000 Decapoda
Child Codes:	28 845901 Albunea spp. 28 845902 Austrolepidopa spp. 28 845903 Leucolepidopa spp. 28 845904 Paralbunea spp. 28 845905 Squillalbunea spp. 28 845906 Stemonopa spp.

Taxon Notes:

This code is provided for use when identification of a specimen to family level is sufficient, or when no further detail is available.

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:86a4f439-8c6f-4aa6-bdd1-30dfacd611bf Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia

Record source:	Boyko, C.B., 2002. A worldwide revision of the Recent and fossil sand crabs of the Albuneidae Stimpson and Blepharipodidae, new family (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Hippoidea)., Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 272: 1-396.

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