Taxon Report

CAAB Taxon Code: 28 803004
Scientific Name and Authority: Trypaea australiensis Dana, 1852

CAAB category: 28 - Crustacea - Malacostraca - Malacostracans: isopods, amphipods, euphausiids and decapods (prawns, lobsters, crabs, etc.)
Family: 28 803 Callianassidae (ghost shrimps or marine yabbies)    show full list

Common Name: ghost nipper
Suggested Indexable Form: nipper, ghost
Common Names List: ghost nipper; marine yabby
FAO Name: Australian ghost shrimp

Organism Type: a slow prawn

Other names used in Australia: Callianassa australiensis

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Parent Codes (if any):
   28 803000 .. Callianassidae - undifferentiated .. slow prawns
Child Codes (if any):
Previous Codes (if any):
  00 709001, 709001

Taxon status (on CAAB list):
   Taxon on current Australian list: Yes
   Taxon on commercial species list: No
   Taxon on Standard Fish Names List: No

Record source:
   Poore, G.C.B.; Griffin, D.J.G., 1979. The Thalassinidea (Crustacea: Decapoda) of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 32: 217-321.

Scientific Name verified against:
   Davie, P.J.F., 2002. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Phyllocarida, Hoplocarida, Eucarida (Part 1). In: Wells, A.; Houston, W.W.K., Editors. Zoological Catalogue of Australia., Vol. 19.3A. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne. 551pp.

On-line resources for this taxon:

Australian Faunal Directory