CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

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

CAAB Code:	28 923000 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Hexapodidae
Rank:	Family

CAAB category:	28 - Crustacea - Malacostraca Malacostracans: isopods, amphipods, euphausiids and decapods (prawns, lobsters, crabs, etc.)
Family:	28 923 Hexapodidae (six-legged crabs) - show full list
Common Name:	six-legged crabs
Organism Type:	a six-legged crab
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	28 708000 Decapoda
Child Codes:	28 923901 Hexapinus spp. 28 923902 Hexaplax spp. 28 923903 Hexapus spp. 28 923904 Mariaplax spp.

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Occurrence locations [1] shown as red circles - View CSIRO Catch records

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.

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:5cdb603a-63b6-4114-afda-7ca8bfe79192 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia
WoRMS	urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:240943 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2022-08-24 View at WoRMS - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

Scientific Name verified against:	Rahayu, D.L., Ng, P.K.L., 2014. New genera and new species of Hexapodidae (Crustacea, Brachyura) from the Indo-West Pacific and east Atlantic., The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Vol. 62: 396-483.

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