Erythrosquilla

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Erythrosquilla
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Stomatopoda
Suborder: Unipeltata
Superfamily: Erythrosquilloidea
Manning & Bruce, 1984 [2]
Family: Erythrosquillidae
Manning & Bruce, 1984 [2]
Genus: Erythrosquilla
Manning & Bruce, 1984 [1]
Species

Erythrosquilla hamano
Erythrosquilla megalops

Erythrosquilla is a genus of mantis shrimp, placed in its own family (Erythrosquillidae) and superfamily (Erythrosquilloidea) comprising two species:

  • Erythrosquilla hamano Ahyong, 2001
  • Erythrosquilla megalops Manning & Bruce, 1984

The family is distinguished from other stomatopod families by the presence of a ridge on the mid-line of the telson.[3]

Erythrosquilla megalops[]

E. megalops is only known from the waters off Somalia, in the Indian Ocean, which gives rise to the generic name (Mare Erythraeum being an old name for the Indian Ocean).[1] The raptorial claws each have five teeth, rather than the 8–9 seen in E. hamano.[3]

Erythrosquilla hamano[]

E. hamano is known from Japanese water in the East China Sea and around Rottnest Island, Australia. This apparently disjunct distribution is also known in the parasquillid mantis shrimp . Among the differences between it and E. megalops, the most obvious is that it has more teeth on the raptorial claw than E. megalops.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Raymond B. Manning & A. J. Bruce (1984). "Erythrosquilla megalops, a remarkable new stomatopod from the western Indian Ocean". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 4 (2): 329–332. doi:10.2307/1548030. JSTOR 1548030.
  2. ^ a b J. W. Martin & G. E. Davis (2001). An Updated Classification of the Recent Crustacea (PDF). Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. pp. 1–132.
  3. ^ a b c Shane T. Ahyong (2001). Revision of the Australian Stomatopod Crustacea (PDF). Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 26. pp. 1–326. ISBN 0-7347-2303-2.
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