Stomatopoda - Unipeltata - Nannosquillidae - Acanthosquilla
| Acanthosquilla multifasciata (Wood-Mason, 1895) |
World Distribution
Ahyong (2012: 244) - Red Sea to Vietnam, Australia, Japan and Hawaii; intertidal to 73 m (Ahyong 2001). - Müller (1994) - Red Sea (Obock; Dahlak Archipelago: Goliath Bay, Entedebir); Gulf of Oman; India; Thailand (Phuket); Indonesia (several records in Moosa, 1973); Australia (Dunk Island, Family Group, Queensland; N of Broome, W-Australia; Port Walcott, W-Australia); Taiwan; Japan; New Caledonia (Lagoon); Hawaii. Also French Polynesia.
Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Soft bottom (mud or sand)
Vertical range : Shallow-waters (0-100 m) - Min-Max observed: 1-701 m
New Caledonia data
Acanthosquilla multifasciata, - Moosa, 1991, Stomatopoda, in: Le benthos des fonds meubles des lagons de Nouvelle-Calédonie, Vol. 1 (B. Richer de Forges, ed.), Ed. ORSTOM: 183.
Lagon 6 Nouvelle Caledonie, DW352 — Moosa MK, Etudes & Theses 1: 149-219
Lagon 10 Nouvelle Caledonie, DW604 — Moosa MK, Etudes & Theses 1: 149-219
Lagon 13 Nouvelle Caledonie, DW1204 — Moosa MK, Etudes & Theses 1: 149-219
Lagon 11 Nouvelle Caledonie, DW810 — Moosa MK, Etudes & Theses 1: 149-219
Lagon 10 Nouvelle Caledonie, DW682 — Moosa MK, Etudes & Theses 1: 149-219
Lagon 10 Nouvelle Caledonie, DW609 — Moosa MK, Etudes & Theses 1: 149-219
Lagon 10 Nouvelle Caledonie, DW622 — Moosa MK, Etudes & Theses 1: 149-219
Central Pacific data (Wallis & Futuna, Polynesia, Clipperton, Easter Island)
Acanthosquilla multifasciata - Unpublished specimens, Smithsonian Institution and/or U.C. Berkeley, coll. and det. R. Caldwell, Moorea "burrows in sandy backreefs areas, 1-3m, larvae at night light, common".
Other data
Suva 4 Fidji, CP20 — Ahyong ST, unpublished data.
Suva 4 Fidji, CP19 — Ahyong ST, unpublished data.
Suva 2 Fidji, DW64 — Ahyong ST, unpublished data.
Suva 2 Fidji, DW50 — Ahyong ST, unpublished data.
Suva 2 Fidji, CP47 — Ahyong ST, unpublished data.
Musorstom 10 Fidji, CP1342 — Ahyong ST, unpublished data.
References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)This species in Worms Database