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CAAB Taxon Report
Animalia (kingdom) »
Arthropoda (phylum)
» Malacostraca (class)
» Decapoda (order)
» Inachidae (family)
CAAB Code :
28 880001
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Scientific Name and Authority :
Platymaia wyvillethomsoni Miers, 1885
CAAB category :
28 -
Crustacea - Malacostraca Malacostracans: isopods, amphipods, euphausiids and decapods (prawns, lobsters, crabs, etc.)
Distribution map :
Family :
Inachidae (spider crabs) - show full list
Common Name : three-spined spider crab
Common Names List : three-spined spider crab
Recent Synonyms : Platymaia wyvillethompsoni
Taxon lists :
Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Regions :
Australia (inc. subantarctic territories) New Zealand (inc. subantarctic territories) South Pacific (Fiji etc.) Tropical Indo-West Pacific
Habitat :
Marine unspecified
Parent Codes :
28 880967
Platymaia spp.
Organism Type : a spider crab
Taxon Notes :This code replaces previous (interim) CAAB code 00 702010 (FISHLIST 702010).
Identifiers :
Australian Faunal Directory (AFD)
urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:e5f4dca9-1310-4fe4-92f8-1124527bb7bd
Name status: accepted
Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
Museum of Victoria
5157
World Register of Marine Species
urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:441946
Name status: accepted
Checked on: 2019-01-11
View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS)
(report and map of occurrences )
Images :
CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC)
Catalogue Number: MIIC-04434
CSIRO Specimen Reference: SS200510-004-036 Survey: SS200510 [details ] Date of image: 19-November-2005 00:11 Position: -31.618° 114.972° Depth: 404.3 metres Credit: CSIRO - Karen Gowlett-Holmes Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC)
Catalogue Number: MIIC-04428
CSIRO Specimen Reference: IN2015_C02-174-101a Survey: IN2015_C02 [details ] Date of image: 09-December-2015 00:12 Position: -34.2536° 132.623° Depth: 431.4 metres Credit: CSIRO - Karen Gowlett-Holmes Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC)
Catalogue Number: MIIC-04429
CSIRO Specimen Reference: IN2015_C02-174-101b Survey: IN2015_C02 [details ] Date of image: 09-December-2015 00:12 Position: -34.2536° 132.623° Depth: 431.4 metres Credit: CSIRO - Karen Gowlett-Holmes Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC)
Catalogue Number: MIIC-04430
CSIRO Specimen Reference: IN2015_C02-174-101c Survey: IN2015_C02 [details ] Date of image: 09-December-2015 00:12 Position: -34.2536° 132.623° Depth: 431.4 metres Credit: CSIRO - Karen Gowlett-Holmes Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC)
Catalogue Number: MIIC-04431
CSIRO Specimen Reference: IN2015_C02-174-101d Survey: IN2015_C02 [details ] Date of image: 09-December-2015 00:12 Position: -34.2536° 132.623° Depth: 431.4 metres Credit: CSIRO - Karen Gowlett-Holmes Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC)
Catalogue Number: MIIC-04432
CSIRO Specimen Reference: IN2015_C02-174-101e Survey: IN2015_C02 [details ] Date of image: 09-December-2015 00:12 Position: -34.2536° 132.623° Depth: 431.4 metres Credit: CSIRO - Karen Gowlett-Holmes Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC)
Catalogue Number: MIIC-04433
CSIRO Specimen Reference: IN2015_C02-174-101f Survey: IN2015_C02 [details ] Date of image: 09-December-2015 00:12 Position: -34.2536° 132.623° Depth: 431.4 metres Credit: CSIRO - Karen Gowlett-Holmes Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC)
Catalogue Number: MIIC-04435
CSIRO Specimen Reference: SS200510-040-001 Survey: SS200510 [details ] Date of image: 30-November-2005 00:11 Position: -35.2273° 118.594° Depth: 553.8 metres Credit: CSIRO - Karen Gowlett-Holmes Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
CSIRO Marine Invertebrate Image Collection (MIIC)
Catalogue Number: MIIC-04436
CSIRO Specimen Reference: SS200510-122-039 Survey: SS200510 [details ] Date of image: 09-December-2005 00:12 Position: -24.552° 112.252° Depth: 403.5 metres Credit: CSIRO - Karen Gowlett-Holmes Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike (CC BY-NC-SA)
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 :
Froglia, C. Clark, P.F., 2011. The forgotten Narrative of H.M.S. Challenger and the implications for decapod nomenclature., Zootaxa , Vol. 2788: 45-56.