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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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CAAB Code:	28 919003 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Megaesthesius westralia   Davie, 2013
Rank:	Species

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: [a crab] Organism Type: a crab Synonyms: Megaesthesius sagedae (mis-identification) Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 28 919904     Megaesthesius spp. Previous Codes (if any): 28 922024

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Taxon Notes:	This species was originally identified as Megaesthesius sagedae - the latter is currently not recorded from Australian waters.
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:7e7b08a7-5a42-4115-bd0c-52ab24e41e4d Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia MoV 5092 WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:877955 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-06-21 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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Record source:	Poore, G.C.B., McCallum, A.W., Taylor, J, 2008. Decapod Crustacea of the continental margin of southwestern and central Western Australia: preliminary identifications of 524 species from FRV Southern Surveyor voyage SS10-2005., Museum Victoria Science Report, Vol. 11: 1-106.
Scientific Name verified against:	Davie, P.J.F., 2013. A new species of Megaesthesius Rathbun, 1909 (Crustacea: Bachyura: Chasmocarcinidae) from deep water off Western Australia., Zootaxa, Vol. 3647(3): 470-478.