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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 852031 |
Scientific Name and Authority: | Petalomera pulchra Miers, 1884 |
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 sponge crab] | |
Organism Type: | a sponge crab | |
Taxon lists: |
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Habitat: |
Marine unspecified | |
Parent Codes: |
28 852918
Petalomera spp. |
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Record source: | Davie, P.J.F., 2002. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Eucarida (Part 2): Decapoda - Anomura, Brachyura. In: Wells, A. Houston, W.W.K., Editors, Zoological Catalogue of Australia., 19.3B. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 641pp. |
Scientific Name verified against: | McLay, C.L. Ng, P.K.L., 2007. Revision of the Indo-West Pacific sponge crabs of the genus Petalomera Stimpson, 1858 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Dromiidae)., The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Vol. 55(1): 107-120. |