CAAB - Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota

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

CAAB Code:	28 960000 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Ocypodidae
Rank:	Family

CAAB category:	28 - Crustacea - Malacostraca Malacostracans: isopods, amphipods, euphausiids and decapods (prawns, lobsters, crabs, etc.)
Family:	28 960 Ocypodidae (ghost and fiddler crabs) - show full list
Common Name:	ghost and fiddler crabs
Common Names List:	ghost crabs fiddler crabs
Organism Type:	a ghost crab or fiddler crab
Taxon lists:	Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
Habitat:	Marine unspecified Estuarine Coastal (0-40m)
Parent Codes:	28 708000 Decapoda
Child Codes:	28 960903 Austruca spp. 28 960902 Gelasimus spp. 28 960901 Ocypode spp. 28 960904 Paraleptuca spp. 28 960905 Tubuca 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:279cb2d9-9aed-4d03-b16e-cb77a4dfb43d Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia

Scientific Name verified against:	Shih, H.-T., Ng, P.K.L., Davie, P.J.F., Schubart, C.D., Türkay, M., Naderloo, R., Jones, D., Liu, M.-Y., 2016. Systematics of the family Ocypodidae Rafinesque, 1815 (Crustacea: Brachyura), based on phylogenetic relationships, with a reorganization of subfamily rankings and a review of the taxonomic status of Uca Leach, 1814, sensu lato and its subgenera., Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Vol. 64: 139-175.

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