Carinosquilla spinosa Ahyong & Naiyanetr, 2002

Ahyong, Shane T. & Kumar, Appukuttannair Biju, 2018, First records of seven species of mantis shrimp from India (Crustacea: Stomatopoda), Zootaxa 4370 (4), pp. 381-394 : 386

Carinosquilla spinosa Ahyong & Naiyanetr, 2002

( Fig. 2B )

Squilla carinata .—INGLE 1963: 17–18, FIGS. 6–8, 10–12, 67.—MANNING 1968: 21–23, FIG. 6.

Carinosquilla carinata .—TIRMIZI & MANNING 1968: 4 [NOT C. carinata (SERèNE, 1950)].

Carinosquilla spinosa AHYONG & NAIYANETR, 2002 : 290–292, FIG. 1 [TYPE LOCALITY: ANDAMAN SEA SW OF PHUKET, THAILAND].

Material examined. Tamil Nadu: DABFUK, 1 male (TL 92 mm), off Muttom, commercial trawl, 22 March 2016.

Remarks. The specimen lacks both raptorial claws, but otherwise agrees in all respects with the type account of C. spinosa from the Andaman Sea (Ahyong & Naiyanetr 2002). Carinosquilla spinosa is the Indian Ocean counterpart of C. carinata from the South China Sea, and, as with Odontodactylus japonicus (aboVe), was preViously recorded from the eastern margin of the Indian Ocean (Andaman Sea off Thailand) and the far western Indian Ocean ( Madagascar, Red Sea), but not from intermediate localities. The present record of C. spinosa from southwestern India bridges the gap in the preViously ‘disjunct’ distribution.

Distribution. Madagascar and the Red Sea to the Andaman Sea; now from India; 30–40 m (Ahyong & Naiyanetr 2002).

Figures

FIGURE 2. A, Carinosquilla multicarinata (WHITE, 1849), FEMALE, TL 90 MM, TUTICORIN, ZRC; B, Carinosquilla spinosa (AHYONG & NAIYANETR, 2002), FEMALE, TL 92 MM, TUTICORIN, DABFUK; C, Erugosquilla woodmasoni (KEMP, 1911), FEMALE, TL 111 MM, TUTICORIN, ZRC; D, Harpiosquilla indica MANNING, 1969, FEMALE, TL 150 MM, TUTICORIN, ZRC; E, Harpiosquilla melanoura MANNING, 1968, MALE, TL 120 MM, MUTTOM, ZRC; F, Oratosquillina inornata (TATE, 1883), MALE, TL 150 MM, TUTICORIN,ZRC.

FIGURE1. A–B, Lysiosquillina lisa AHYONG &RANDALL,2001,ANTERIOR CEPHALOTHORAx AND DORSAL HABITUS,MOULT,MALE,TL 280 MM, TUTICORIN, DABFUK; C, Odontodactylus cultrifer (WHITE, 1851), MALE, TL 90 MM, MUTTOM, DABFUK; D, Odontodactylus japonicus (DE HAAN,1844), FEMALE,TL 84 MM, MUTTOM,DABFUK; E, Faughnia formosae MANNING & CHAN, 1997, MALE,TL 103 MM,MUTTOM, DABFUK.