Taxon Report

CAAB Taxon Code: 28 877002
Scientific Name and Authority: Ashtoret lunaris (Forskål, 1775)

CAAB category: 28 - Crustacea - Malacostraca - Malacostracans: isopods, amphipods, euphausiids and decapods (prawns, lobsters, crabs, etc.)
Family: 28 877 Matutidae (moon crabs)    show full list

Common Name: moon crab
Suggested Indexable Form: moon crab
Common Names List: moon crab
FAO Name: yellow moon crab

Organism Type: a moon crab

Other names used in Australia:

Taxon Notes: According to Ng (1998) (FAO guide), "The common Indo-West Pacific species with the carapace pattern of fine black dots which has been identified at one time or another as Matuta lunaris, M. victor, or M. banksii, is actually either Matuta victor or Ashtoret lunaris.
Scientific Name Notes: Previously placed in the family Calappidae.
Common/Standard Name Notes:

Parent Codes (if any):
   28 877000 .. Matutidae - undifferentiated .. moon crabs
Child Codes (if any):
Previous Codes (if any):
  28 875008

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:
   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., Vol. 19.3B. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne. 641pp.

Scientific Name verified against:
   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., Vol. 19.3B. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne. 641pp.

On-line resources for this taxon:

Australian Faunal Directory