Scyllarides aequinoctialis

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Scyllarides aequinoctialis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Family: Scyllaridae
Genus: Scyllarides
Species:
S. aequinoctialis
Binomial name
Scyllarides aequinoctialis
(Lund, 1793) [2] [3]
Synonyms [2]
  • Scyllarus aequinoctialisLund, 1793
  • Pseudibacus gerstaeckeriPfeffer, 1881

Scyllarides aequinoctialis is a species of slipper lobster that lives in the western Atlantic Ocean from South Carolina to São Paulo State, Brazil, including the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, and Bermuda. [2] Its common name is Spanish slipper lobster. [1] It grows up to 30 centimetres (12 in) long, with a carapace 12 cm (4.7 in) long. [2] S. aequinoctialis is the type species of the genus Scyllarides and the first species of slipper lobster to be described from the Western Atlantic. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 Butler, M.; Cockcroft, A.; MacDiarmid, A. (2011). "Scyllarides aequinoctialis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2011: e.T170075A6726084. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T170075A6726084.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Lipke B. Holthuis (1991). "Scyllarides aequinoctialis" (PDF). FAO Species Catalogue, Volume 13. Marine Lobsters of the World. FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization. pp. 183–184. ISBN   92-5-103027-8.
  3. "Scyllarides aequinoctialis (Lund, 1793)". Integrated Taxonomic Information System . Retrieved August 22, 2011.
  4. Lipke B. Holthuis (2002). "The Indo-Pacific scyllarine lobsters (Crustacea, Decapoda, Scyllaridae)" (PDF). Zoosystema. 24 (3): 499–683.