Decapoda - Achelata - Scyllaridae - Scyllarides

Scyllarides squammosus (H. Milne Edwards, 1837)

7 Illustration(s)

World Distribution
Holthuis (1991 : 194) - Indo-ouest Pacifique de l'Afrique orientale au Japon, Hawaii, Mélanésie, Nouvelle-Calédonie, Australie. Comprend, Réunion, Maurice, Rodriguez.
(Landschoff et al. 2022, WIOMS - South Africa from in situ photograph)

Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Hard bottom (rock and rubbles)

Vertical range : Shallow-waters (0-100 m) - Min-Max observed: 1-80 m

Réunion data
Scyllarus squammosus - A. Milne-Edwards, 1862, annexe F : 14 (Réunion, coll. Maillard). - Scyllarides squammosus - Holthuis, 1991 : 194 (Synonymie, distribution). - Photo F. Trentin, 15 m, pre-det T.-Y. Chan with this comment - I based my pre-id. on color of the leg. I will stay with S. squammosus juv. with a remark that S. haanii cannot be totaly excluded.

New Caledonia data
Nouvelle Caledonie, STATION — Holtmi.
Nouvelle Caledonie, 101 — Holtmi.
Nouvelle Caledonie, STATION — Richer de Forges B & Laboute P, Etudes & Theses 2: 45-82
Scyllarides squammosus - Palero et al., 2016: tab. 1, New Caledonia [Phyllosomes larvae].

References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)

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