| Scyllarides herklotsii | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Family: | Scyllaridae |
| Genus: | Scyllarides |
| Species: | S. herklotsii |
| Binomial name | |
| Scyllarides herklotsii | |
| Synonyms | |
Scyllarus herklotsiiHerklots, 1851 | |
Scyllarides herklotsii is a species of slipper lobster from the Atlantic coast West Africa. It is edible, but is not commercially fished, and is taken only by accident. [3]
Scyllarides herklotsii was named in 1851 by Jan Adrian (or Janus Adrianus) Herklots in a doctoral thesis at the University of Leiden; [4] the type material came from Butre, Ghana, [3] and is stored at the Dutch Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum . [5] The species is found from Senegal, where its range overlaps slightly with that of Scyllarides latus , south to Ponta do Pinda, Angola. It usually lives at depths of 5–70 metres (16–230 ft), but has been recorded from depths as great as 200 m (660 ft). [3] It prefers sandy and rocky substrates. [3]
Scyllarides herklotsii reaches a total length of 32 centimetres (13 in), but does not generally exceed 25 cm (9.8 in) long. [3] It may be differentiated from S. latus by the lower, more rounded nature of the tubercles on the carapace. [3]