CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

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

CAAB Code:	28 919000 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Chasmocarcinidae
Rank:	Family

CAAB category:	28 - Crustacea - Malacostraca Malacostracans: isopods, amphipods, euphausiids and decapods (prawns, lobsters, crabs, etc.)
Family:	28 919 Chasmocarcinidae (crabs) - show full list
Common Name:	crabs
Organism Type:	a crab
Synonyms:	Trogloplacidae
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified Estuarine Freshwater
Parent Codes:	28 708000 Decapoda
Child Codes:	28 919901 Australocarcinus spp. 28 919902 Camatopsis spp. 28 919905 Hephthopelta spp. 28 919904 Megaesthesius spp. 28 919903 Tenagopelta spp.

Taxon Notes:

This code is provided for use when identification of a specimen to family level is sufficient, or when no further detail is available.

Scientific Name Notes:

Contains three subfamilies:- Chasmocarcininae, Meagaethesiinae and Trogloplacinae.

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:c9fda576-6df9-4ffc-89b0-8733fe048042 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia

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:	Ng, P.K.L., Castro, P., 2016. Revision of the family Chasmocarcinidae Serène, 1964 (Cruastacea, Brachyura, Goneplacidea)., Zootaxa, Vol. 4209: 1-182. . doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4209.1.1 doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4209.1.1

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