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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report
Animalia (kingdom) » Arthropoda (phylum) » Malacostraca (class) » Decapoda (order) » Dromiidae (family)
| CAAB Code: | 28 852008 |
| Scientific Name and Authority: | Conchoecetes conchifera (Haswell, 1882) |
| CAAB category: | 28 - Crustacea - Malacostraca Malacostracans: isopods, amphipods, euphausiids and decapods (prawns, lobsters, crabs, etc.) |
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| 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. |
| Taxon Notes: | This endemic Australian species has previously been confused with Conchoecetes artificiosus, which is now regarded as restricted to the northern Indian Ocean. | ||||||
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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 |