CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

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

CAAB Code:	28 955000 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Gecarcinucidae
Rank:	Family

CAAB category:	28 - Crustacea - Malacostraca Malacostracans: isopods, amphipods, euphausiids and decapods (prawns, lobsters, crabs, etc.)
Family:	28 955 Gecarcinucidae (freshwater crabs) - show full list
Common Name:	freshwater crabs
Organism Type:	a freshwater crab
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Freshwater
Parent Codes:	28 708000 Decapoda
Child Codes:	28 955901 Austrothelphusa spp.

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:156837cf-21bc-4b4a-9ff2-5a5d8f398f64 Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia

Scientific Name verified against:	Naser, M.D., Davie, P.J.F., Waltham, N.J., 2018. Redescription of Austrothelphusa wasselli (Bishop, 1963) (Crustacea: Brachyura: Gecarcinucidae), and designation of a new species from Gilbert River, north Queensland, Australia., Zootaxa, Vol. 4369(1): 109-127. . doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4369.1.6 doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4369.1.6

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