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DecaNet (World List of Decapoda)

WoRMS taxon details

Emerita austroafricana Schmitt, 1937

210318  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:210318)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Arthropoda (Phylum)
  4. Crustacea (Subphylum)
  5. Multicrustacea (Superclass)
  6. Malacostraca (Class)
  7. Eumalacostraca (Subclass)
  8. Eucarida (Superorder)
  9. Decapoda (Order)
  10. Pleocyemata (Suborder)
  11. Anomura (Infraorder)
  12. Hippoidea (Superfamily)
  13. Hippidae (Family)
  14. Emerita (Genus)
  15. Emerita austroafricana (Species)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Schmitt, W. L. (1937) A new species of Emerita (Crustacea) from South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum, 32(2): 25–29, pl. 3. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
Type locality contained in Durban Bay  
type locality contained in Durban Bay [details]
Distribution Dar Es-Salaam, Madagascar and Mozambique south to Durban and Natal, South Africa  
Distribution Dar Es-Salaam, Madagascar and Mozambique south to Durban and Natal, South Africa [details]
DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Emerita austroafricana Schmitt, 1937. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=210318 on 2025-04-28
Date
action
by
1997-02-13 09:54:01Z
created
Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-04-16 05:58:26Z
changed
Boyko, Christopher B.
2016-01-31 13:50:15Z
changed
Boyko, Christopher B.

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Nomenclature

original description Schmitt, W. L. (1937) A new species of Emerita (Crustacea) from South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum, 32(2): 25–29, pl. 3. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

basis of record Ruwa, R.K. (1989). Macrofaunal composition and zonation on sandy beaches at Gazi, Kanamai and Malindi Bay, Kenya. Kenya Journal of Sciences (Series B) 10 (1-2): 31-45 [details] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Distribution Dar Es-Salaam, Madagascar and Mozambique south to Durban and Natal, South Africa [details]

Unreviewed
Habitat Wet fine sandstore [details]
    Definitions

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To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Emerita austroafricana) 
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (2 records) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (Holotype USNM 71446)