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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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CAAB Code:	28 930039 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Chiromantes garfunkel   Davie & Ng, 2013
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 28 - Crustacea - Malacostraca Malacostracans: isopods, amphipods, euphausiids and decapods (prawns, lobsters, crabs, etc.) Family: 28 930 Sesarmidae (rock crabs) - show full list Common Name: Yellow-eyed Crab Organism Type: a shore crab Synonyms: Chiromantes obtusifrons Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Species not on current Australian list, but occuring in adjacent region: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 28 930902     Chiromantes spp.

Taxon Notes:	This species was previously mis-identified as the Hawaiian species Chiromantes obtusifrons, previously considered to be a widespread Indo-Pacific species, but now part of a species complex. C. garfunkel is endemic to Christmas Island (Inidian Ocean).
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:c2f05ab7-ac23-4164-804f-8f35d984c66e Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:881913 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-08-09 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:	Davie, P.J.F., Ng, P.K.L., 2013. A review of Chiromantes obtusifrons (Dana, 1851) (Decapoda: Brachyura: Sesarmidae), with descriptions of four new sibling-species from Christmas Island (Indian Ocean), Guam and Taiwan., Zootaxa, Vol. 3609(1): 1-25.