CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

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

CAAB Code:	28 931902 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Discoplax spp.
Rank:	Genus

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:	[a crab]
Organism Type:	a crab
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified
Parent Codes:	28 931000 Gecarcinidae
Child Codes:	28 931007 Discoplax celeste 28 931002 Discoplax hirtipes 28 931009 Discoplax magna 28 931003 Discoplax rotunda

Taxon Notes:

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

Identifiers:

AFD	urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:da435819-e67e-422b-83f9-ae05a855e1c0 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia

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.

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