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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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CAAB Code:	28 960033 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Ocypode kuhlii   De Haan, 1835
Rank:	Species

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: [a ghost crab] Organism Type: a ghost crab 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 960901     Ocypode spp.

Taxon Notes:	This species is not currently regarded as being present in Australian waters; previous Australian records are most likely mis-identifications of other Ocypode species. See Sakai & Tükay, 2013.
Identifiers:	AFD urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:c4e6d1b1-6ed8-4cad-9abd-15029d64f063 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2019-11-21 View at Atlas of Living Australia WoRMS urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:444986 Name status: accepted    Checked on: 2016-05-12 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:	Sakai, K., Türkay, M., 2013. Revision of the genus Ocypode with the description of a new genus, Hoplocypode (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura)., Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature, Vol. 56(2): 665-793.