Oratosquillina quinquedentata ( Brooks, 1886 )

Ahyong, Shane T., 2002, Stomatopoda (Crustacea) of the KARUBAR Expedition in Indonesia, Zoosystema 24 (2), pp. 373-383 : 381

Oratosquillina quinquedentata ( Brooks, 1886)

Squilla quinquedentata Brooks, 1886: 21 , 26, pl. 1, fig. 3, pl. 2, fig. 6. Type locality: Arafura Sea. — Kemp 1913: 52 [not addendum p. 95]. — Stephenson & McNeill 1955: 243.

Oratosquilla quinquedentata – Manning 1971: 14; 1978: 23-25, fig. 12.

Oratosquillina quinquedentata – Manning 1995: 25, 225, 227. — Ahyong 2001: 295-298, fig. 144.

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Kai Islands, stn DW01, 05°46’S, 132°10’E, 156-305 m, 22.X.1991, 1 postlarva tl 22 ( MNHN).

DISTRIBUTION. — Gulf of Thailand, India, Indonesia, and Australia from the shore to 156-305 m depth.

REMARKS

The postlarva lacks raptorial claws, but agrees well with Alikunhi’s (1967) account of postlarval O. quinquedentata . The present specimen represents the deepest known record for O. quinquedentata . Oratosquillina quinquedentata was previously known from the shore to 51 m depth ( Dingle et al. 1977; Manning 1978; Ahyong 2001).