Stomatopoda - Unipeltata - Protosquillidae - Chorisquilla

Chorisquilla excavata (Miers, 1880)

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World Distribution
Ahyong (2017, Zootaxa: 561) - Southwestern Pacific from New Caledonia and Fiji to the Society Islands; now from the Austral Islands; shallow water to 90 m.

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

Vertical range : Shallow-waters (0-100 m) - Min-Max observed: 5-50 m

Central Pacific data (Wallis & Futuna, Polynesia, Clipperton, Easter Island)
Chorisquilla excavata - Barber & Erdmann, 2000: not seen (Moorea ). - Ahyong, 2002: 367, 369 (Checklist of stomatopods from French Polynesia). - Unpublished specimens, Smithsonian Institute and/or U.C. Berkeley, Caldwell coll. & det., Moorea, rubble, 5-40 m, common; coll. BENTHAUS 2002 Expedition, stn DW1926, Thiers bank, 50-90 m, det. S. Ahyong 2004. - Ahyong, 2017, Zootaxa: 560, same BENTHAUS spp. - AUSTRAL ISLANDS: Tubuai Islands: MNHN IU-2016-9518, 1 male (TL 23 mm), 5 females (TL 17–29 mm), Président Thiers Bank, 24°38.16'S, 146°00.82'W, 50–90 m, BENTHAUS stn DW1926, 13 November 2002. SOCIETY ISLANDS: AM P64480, 1 male (TL 13 mm), Pointe Venus, Baie de Matavai, Tahiti, Society Islands, French Polynesia, 17°29.60'S, 149°29.95'W, 20 m, on scuba, FRP-75, coll. J. Lowry & M. Arakino, 27 August 1991

Comment(s) on data
Ahyong (2012: 242) - Chorisquilla excavata, - Moosa, Stomatopoda, in: Le benthos des fonds meubles des lagons de Nouvelle-Calédonie, Vol. 1 (B. Richer de Forges, ed.), Ed. ORSTOM: 163. is in fact C. pococki

References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)

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