Species Oratosquillina interrupta (Kemp, 1911)
- Squilla interrupta Kemp, S. 1911. Preliminary description of new species and varieties of Crustacea Stomatopoda in the Indian Museum. Records of the Indian Museum 6(2): 93-100 [published May] [98].
Type data:
Lectotype AM P3982 ♂, Hong Kong.
Paralectotype(s) ZSI 9827-8/6 1♂ 1♀, Hong Kong; ZSI 3329/9 3♂ 3♀, Hong Kong; ZSI 3095/5 ♀, Camorta, Nicobar Islands, India; ZSI 3094/5 ♀, Akyab, Arakan coast, Burma; ZSI 7982-91/9 5♂ 5♀, Sandheads, Hughli River delta, India; ZSI 1284-6/7 2♂ 1♀, Sandheads, Hughli River delta, India; ZSI 7783/10 ♂, Ghapa Natta, Mutlah River, near Calcutta, India; ZSI 7268-74/10 5♂ 5♀, mouth of Hughli River, India; ZSI 3080/5 ♂, off Mutlah Light, Hughli River, India; ZSI 8043/10 1♂ 1♀, Puri, Orissa coast, India; ZSI 3335-7/7 3♂, off Ganjam coast, Madras, India; ZSI 5830/9 ♂, off Vizagapatam coast, Madras, India; ZSI 7557/6 4 ♂ 14 ♀, Bombay, India; ZSI 7559/9 4♂ 14♀, Sandheads, Hughli River delta, India; ZSI 7272-8/10 2♂ 4♀, Panvel Creek, Bombay, India; ZSI 7004/10 ♂ ♀, Karachi ?, Pakistan; ZSI 3047/5 4 ♂ 4 ♀, Arabian Sea; ZSI 3067/5 4♂ 4♀, Arabian Sea; ZSI 647/10 ♀, Persian Gulf; ZSI 7282-3/10 2♂ 1♀, Persian Gulf; ZSI 7279-81/10 2♂ 1♀, Persian Gulf; AM P3981 ♀; AM P3976 ♂.Subsequent designation references:
Ahyong, S.T. 2001. Revision of the Australian Stomatopod Crustacea. Records of the Australian Museum Suppl. 26: 1-326 [293-295 fig. 142]. - Oratosquilla arabica Ahmed, M.M. 1971. A new species of Oratosquilla (Crustacea: Stomatopoda) from the Arabian Gulf. Pakistan Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research 14(3): 251-253 [251 fig. 1].
Type data:
Status unknown, Arabian Gulf off Iraq.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Manning, R.B. 1978. Further observations on Oratosquilla, with accounts of two new genera and nine new species (Crustacea: Stomatopoda: Squillidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology No. 272: 1-43 [6]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam and Australia westward to the Persian Gulf.
IMCRA
Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)
Ecological Descriptors
Benthic, intertidal, mud bottom, predator, sand bottom, sublittoral.
Extra Ecological Information
Sheltered coastal waters and bays, to 25 m depth.
General References
Ghosh, H.C. & Manning, R.B. 1988. Types of stomatopod crustaceans in the Zoological Survey of India. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 101(3): 653-661 [657] (type data for S. interrupta)
History of changes
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| 31-Jul-2013 | 31-Jul-2013 | MODIFIED | ||
| 30-May-2012 | 30-May-2012 | MOVED | ||
| 10-May-2012 | 10-May-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 12-Feb-2010 | (import) |