Pseudosquilla ciliata ( Fabricius, 1787 )

Ahyong, Shane T., 2017, Stomatopod Crustacea of the Austral and Gambier Islands, French Polynesia, Zootaxa 4286 (4), pp. 555-564 : 562

Pseudosquilla ciliata ( Fabricius, 1787)

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 .— Nobili 1907: 34.— Seurat 1934: 61.— Ahyong 2001: 112 –115, fig. 55; 2002a: 355–356.— Ahyong & Erdmann 2003: 333 –334.— Ahyong 2012b: 243, 247; 2014: 252.

Material examined. GAMBIER ISLANDS: AM P98494, 1 female (TL 18 mm), Taravai, 23°07.85'S, 135°02.08'W, 10–16 m, rubble, SFP 2014-66 -4, coll. M. Reid et al., 10 October 2014.

Remarks. Nobili (1906) first recorded P. ciliata from the Gambier Islands (Mangareva). Distribution. Tropical western and eastern Atlantic, Indo-West Pacific including French Polynesia; intertidal to 86 m ( Ahyong 2001).