Species Miyakella nepa (Latreille, 1828)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Squilla nepa Latreille, P.A. 1828. Encyclopédie Méthodique. Histoire Naturelle. Entomologie, ou Histoire naturelle des Crustacés, des Arachnides et des Insectes. Serville et Guérin : Le Peletier de St-Fargeau Vol. 10(2) 345-852 pp. [471].

  Type data:

   Neotype ZRC 1999.2082 ♀, Xiamen, China.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Ahyong, S.T. 2001. Revision of the Australian Stomatopod Crustacea. Records of the Australian Museum Suppl. 26: 1-326 [279-280 fig. 136].
• Squilla edwardsi Giebel, C. 1861. Neue Squilla von der Insel Banka. Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften Halle 18: 319-320 [320].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Insel Banka, Indonesia [2°15'S 106°00'E].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Bigelow, R.P. 1894. Report on the Crustacea of the Order Stomatopoda collected by the steamer Albatross between 1885 and 1891, and on other specimens in the U.S. National Museum. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 17, No. 1017: 489-550

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Taiwan and Hong Kong to the western Indian Ocean and the Red Sea, including the Philippines, Vietnam and Australia.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Mud bottom, predator, sand bottom, sublittoral.

Extra Ecological Information

To 25 m depth.

 

General References

Manning, R.B. 1995. Stomatopod Crustacea of Vietnam: The Legacy of Raoul Serène. Crustacean Research Spec. No. 4: ii-ix 1-339 [216]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
30-May-2012		30-May-2012	MOVED
10-May-2012		10-May-2012	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)