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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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CAAB Code:	28 852014 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Desmodromia tranterae   McLay, 2001
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 sponge crab] Organism Type: a sponge crab Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 28 852906     Desmodromia spp.

Identifiers:

AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:4de0b7db-41f3-432f-a59a-e6dd5db4c209 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:440063 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-05-11 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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Record source:	McLay, C.L., 2001. A new genus and two new species of unusual dromiid crabs (Brachyura: Dromiidae) from northern Australia., Records of the Australian Museum, Vol. 53(1): 1-8.
Scientific Name verified against:	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.