Pseudosquilla ciliata ( Fabricius, 1787 )

Ahyong Kumejima, Shane T., 2012, Stomatopod Crustacea of the KUMEJIMA 2009 Expedition, Japan *, Zootaxa 3367, pp. 232-251 : 243

Pseudosquilla ciliata ( Fabricius, 1787) #

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Squilla ciliata Fabricius, 1787: 333 [type locality: Exmouth Gulf, Western Australia, by neotype selection ( Ahyong 2001)].

Squilla stylifera Lamarck, 1818: 189 [type locality: unknown].

Squilla quadrispinosa Eydoux & Souleyet, 1842: 362 , pl. 5, fig. 1 [type locality Sandwich Islands (= Hawaiian Islands)].

Pseudosquilla ciliata var. occidentalis Borradaile, 1900: 398 , 402 [type locality: West Indies].

Pseudosquilla ciliata . — Fukuda 1909: 57, pl. 2, fig. 4; 1910: 145; 1913: 72. — Kemp, 1913: 10, 96–100. — Komai 1927: 323. — Ahyong 2001: 112–115, fig. 55. — Osawa et al. 2004: 8. — Hamano 2005: 13, 36, fig. 2-8a–d.

Material. AM P87570, 1 female postlarva (TL 20 mm), 26° 19.714 –19.579´N, 126° 45.649 –45.707´E, 17.9–42.5 m, rubble, dredge 44, 14 Nov 2009 .

Remarks. The specimen represents the first record of P. ciliata from the Ryukyus and agrees well with the description of the postlarva by Manning (1977).

Distribution. Widely distributed throughout the tropical Indo-West Pacific, eastern and western Atlantic.