Species Lophosquilla costata (De Haan, 1844)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Squilla costata De Haan, W. 1844. Crustacea. 1-243 pls A-J, L-Q, 1-55, circ. tab. 2 in von Siebold, P.F. (ed.). Fauna Japonica sive Descriptio Animalium, quae in Itinere per Japoniam, Jussu et Auspiciis Superiorum, qui Summum in India Batava Imperium Tenent, Suscepto, Annis 1823–1830 Collegit, Notis, Observationibus et Adumbrationibus Illustravit. Leiden : Lugduni-Batavorum. [published from 1833–1850, Atlas dated 1844] [223 pl. 51 fig. 5].

  Type data:

   Lectotype RMNH 452 ♀, Japan.
  Paralectotype(s) RMNH 23 1♂ 3♀, Japan; RMNH D470 ♀, Japan; MNHP St.424 1 specimen, Japan.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Yamaguchi, T. & Baba, K. 1993. Crustacean specimens collected in Japan by Ph.F. von Siebold and H. Bürger and held by the National Natuurhistorisch Museum in Leiden and other museums. pp. 145-563 in Yamaguchi, T. (ed.). Ph.F. von Siebold and Natural History of Japan Crustacea. Japan : Shimoda Printing Inc.
• Lophosquilla makarovi Manning, R.B. 1995. Stomatopod Crustacea of Vietnam: The Legacy of Raoul Serène. Crustacean Research Spec. No. 4: ii-ix 1-339 [211].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHP Sto 423 ♂, Pointe de Ba Lum, Annam, Gulf of Tonkin, Vietnam.
  Paratype(s) USNM 136307 ♀, South Cheung Chau Island, Hong Kong.

  Type locality references:

  Manning, R.B. 1995. Stomatopod Crustacea of Vietnam: The Legacy of Raoul Serène. Crustacean Research Spec. No. 4: ii-ix 1-339 [211].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Ahyong, S.T., Chan, T.Y. & Liao, Y.C. 2008. A Catalog of the Mantis Shrimps (Stomatopoda) of Taiwan. Keelung : National Taiwan Ocean University First Edition, 191 pp. [Date published September 2008] [135]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific Oceans.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, predator, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

To 24 m depth.

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
22-Dec-2016	STOMATOPODA Latreille, 1817	30-May-2016	MODIFIED	Dr Shane Ahyong
30-May-2012		30-May-2012	MOVED
10-May-2012		10-May-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)