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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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

CAAB Code: 28 880146 show as JSON
Scientific Name
and Authority
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Oxypleurodon parallelum   Richer de Forges & Ng, 2009

Rank: Species
CAAB category: 28 - Crustacea - Malacostraca Malacostracans: isopods, amphipods, euphausiids and decapods (prawns, lobsters, crabs, etc.)
Family: 28 880 Epialtidae (spider crabs) - show full list
Common Name: [a spider crab]
Organism Type: a spider crab
Synonyms: Oxypleurodon stimpsoni
Taxon lists: Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat: Marine unspecified
Parent Codes: 28 880956     Oxypleurodon spp.
Taxon Notes:This species was previous mis-identified as Oxypleurodon stimpsoni, which is now not considered to be present in Australian waters, see Richer de Forges & Ng, 2009. All records of O. stimpsoni from Australia need to be checked to confirm their identity.

Identifiers:
AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:025f10e5-a367-40e9-a66d-c18a0a5f0b05
Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:557785
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., 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
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Richer de Forges, B., Ng, P.K.L., 2009. On the majoid genera Oxypleurodon Miers, 1886, and Sphenocarcinus A. Milne Edwards, 1875 (Crustacea: Beachyura: Epialtidae), with descriptions of two new genera and five new species., The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Vol. Suppl. 20: 247-266.
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