First records of seven species of mantis shrimp from India (Crustacea: Stomatopoda)
Author
Ahyong, Shane T.
Author
Kumar, Appukuttannair Biju
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-01-12
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4
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4370.4.4
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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).