Scyllarides aequinoctialis

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]

Scyllarides aequinoctialis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Crustacea
Class:
Malacostraca
Order:
Decapoda
Infraorder:
Achelata
Family:
Scyllaridae
Genus:
Scyllarides
Species:
S. aequinoctialis
Binomial name
Scyllarides aequinoctialis
(Lund, 1793) [2][3]
Synonyms[2]
  • Scyllarus aequinoctialis Lund, 1793
  • Pseudibacus gerstaeckeri Pfeffer, 1881

References
  1. M. Butler; A. Cockcroft & A. MacDiarmid (2013). "Scyllarides aequinoctialis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015.4: e.T170075A6726084. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T170075A6726084.en.
  2. 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.
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