CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

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

CAAB Code:	28 885001 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Halicarcinus ovatus Stimpson, 1858
Rank:	Species

CAAB category:	28 - Crustacea - Malacostraca Malacostracans: isopods, amphipods, euphausiids and decapods (prawns, lobsters, crabs, etc.)
Family:	28 885 Hymenosomatidae (false spider crabs) - show full list
Common Name:	three-pronged flat spider crab
Common Names List:	three-pronged sea spider oval spider crab
Organism Type:	a flat spider crab
Synonyms:	Halicarcinus krefftii
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	28 885905 Halicarcinus spp.
Previous Codes (if any):	28 885025

Taxon Notes:

This species is an Australian endemic, records from New Zealand are mis-identifications of Halicarcinus quoyi.

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:e3911c17-0733-4f0b-84e4-8139134e070b Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
MoV	701
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:441784 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:	Lucas, J.S., 1980. Spider crabs of the family Hymenosomatidae (Crustacea; Brachyura) with particular reference to Australian species: systematica and biology., Records of the Australian Museum, Vol. 33(4): 148-247.
Scientific Name verified against:	Poore, G.C.B., Guinot, D., Komai, T., Naruse, T., 2016. Reappraisal of species attributed to Halicarcinus White, 1846 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Hymenosomatidae) with diagnosis of four new genera and one new species from New Ireland, Papua New Guinea., Zootaxa, Vol. 4093(4): 480-514.

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