CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

Animalia (kingdom) » Arthropoda (phylum) » Malacostraca (class) » Decapoda (order) » Dromiidae (family)

CAAB Code:	28 852031 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Petalomera pulchra Miers, 1884
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 852918 Petalomera spp.

Distribution map:
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Occurrence locations [36] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:a241dd70-23bf-45ba-ba82-364fbf054a94 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:440101 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2016-05-11 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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.

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