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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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CAAB Code:	28 880027 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Pleistacantha maxima   Ahyong & Lee, 2006
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 28 - Crustacea - Malacostraca Malacostracans: isopods, amphipods, euphausiids and decapods (prawns, lobsters, crabs, etc.) Family: 28 880 Inachidae (spider crabs) - show full list Common Name: [a spider crab] Organism Type: a spider crab Synonyms: Pleistacantha oryx Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 28 880968     Pleistacantha spp.

Scientific Name Notes:	Previously mis-identified as P. oryx.
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:082a9b6f-03e8-4c97-8440-76251530954a Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:390259 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-05-12 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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Record source:	Davie, P.J.F., Short, J.W., 1989. Deepwater Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) from southern Queensland, Australia with descriptions of four new species., Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Vol. 27(2): 157-187.
Scientific Name verified against:	Ahyong, S.T., Lee, T., 2006. Two new species of Pleistacantha Miers, 1879 from the Indo-West Pacific region (Crustacea: Decapoda: Majidae)., Zootaxa, Vol. 1378: 1-17.