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CAAB Code:	28 931007 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Discoplax celeste   Ng & Davie, 2012
Rank:	Species

CAAB category: 28 - Crustacea - Malacostraca Malacostracans: isopods, amphipods, euphausiids and decapods (prawns, lobsters, crabs, etc.) Family: 28 931 Gecarcinidae (crabs) - show full list Common Name: Christmas Island Blue Crab Organism Type: a crab Synonyms: Discoplax hirtipes Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Species not on current Australian list, but occuring in adjacent region: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Freshwater Parent Codes: 28 931902     Discoplax spp.

Taxon Notes:	This species has previously been confused with the wide-spread Western Pacific species Discoplax hirtipes. It is endemic to Christmas Island (Indian Ocean).
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:6f4e407c-4e16-4896-bd13-24b0e3b7d0dd Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:881888 Name status: unaccepted    Checked on: 2021-05-05 View at WoRMS    - also at Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) (report and map of occurrences)

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Record source:	Ng, P.K.L., Davie, P.J.F., 2012. The Blue Crab of Christmas Island, Discoplax celeste, new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinidae)., The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Vol. 60(1): 89-100.
Scientific Name verified against:	Ng, P.K.L., Shih, H.-T., 2014. The systematics of the land crabs of the Discoplax hirtipes (Dana, 1851) species-group (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinidae), with description of a new species from the eastern Indian Ocean., Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Vol. Suppl. 30: 109-135.