Erythrosquilla
Erythrosquilla | |
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Scientific classification | |
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 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[]
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- Stomatopoda