Stomatopoda - Unipeltata - Squillidae - Squilla
| Squilla empusa Say, 1818 |
World Distribution
(Takeda, 1983) - WA - Gulf of Mexico, Trinidad, Venezuela, Suriname, French Guiana, 0-150 m
Environnement : Marine - Substrat/Association : Hard bottom (rock and rubbles)
Vertical range : Shallow to deep-waters (e.g. 10-190 m) - Min-Max observed: 1-150 m
Lesser Antilles data
Holthuis (1959: 179) - The Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie possesses a full-grown male specimen of this species (length 132 mm) collected from a sandbank N. of Margarita Island, Venezuela (20-40 fms, February 1957, T. Blok).
IOV (Margarita)
French Guiana and surroundings areas: Guiana, Suriname, Brazil (Amapŕ)
Squilla empusa – Holthuis, 1959b: 177, Suriname [R/V Coquette, 1957; 9-46 m]. — Manning, 1961: 20, north of Suriname [R/V Oregon, st. 2279, 2327]. — Bullis & Thompson, 1965: 13, Suriname [R/V Oregon, st. 2279, 6°20’ N, 55°34’ W, 14 fathoms, 26 m; st. 2327, 6°26’ N, 54°20’ W, 17 fathoms, 31 m]. — Manning, 1969: 208, Guyana, Suriname [British Guiana, specimens in USNM, BMNH; Suriname: R/V Coquette st. 140, 281, 282, 297; R/V Oregon st. 2279, 2327, 4170, 4171]. — Coelho & Koening, 1972: tab. 1, Brazil Amapá [Probably]. — Takeda, 1983: 166, Suriname, French Guiana [30–75 m]. — Tavares, 2002a: 250, French Guiana. — Cintra et al., 2017: tab. 1-6, Brazil Amapá [bycatch of shrimp fisheries, 0–4°N, 27–47 m]. — Silva et al., 2020: tab. 1, Brazil Amapá.
Distribution/Habitat – WA; Marine; 0–150 m.
References : PDF list, 214 pp (1.4 Mo)This species in Worms Database