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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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CAAB Code:	28 852008 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Conchoecetes conchifera   (Haswell, 1882)
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 28 - Crustacea - Malacostraca Malacostracans: isopods, amphipods, euphausiids and decapods (prawns, lobsters, crabs, etc.) Family: 28 852 Dromiidae (sponge crabs) - show full list Common Name: [a shell-carrying crab] Organism Type: a shell-carrying crab Synonyms: Conchoecetes artificiosus (mis-identification) Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 28 852903     Conchoecetes spp.

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Taxon Notes:	This endemic Australian species has previously been confused with Conchoecetes artificiosus, which is now regarded as restricted to the northern Indian Ocean.
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:412da769-7c8a-4902-9b06-7ffc287f7f52 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia Cleveland K2040611 WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:209473 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2017-03-02 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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Record source:	McLay, C.L., Hosie, A., 2012. Another shell-carrying dromiid crab, Desmodromia tranterae McLay, 2001, from the Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia and observations of shell-aquisition behaviour of Conchoecetes artificiosus (Fabricius, 1798) (Decapoda, Bracyura, Dromiidae)., Crustaceana Monographs, Vol. 17: 183-196.
Scientific Name verified against:	McLay, C.L., Naruse, T., 2019. Revision of the shell-carrying crab genus Conchoecetes Stimpson, 1858 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Dromiidae)., Zootaxa, Vol. 4706(1): 1-47. . doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4706.1.1 doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4706.1.1