Species Scyllarides squammosus (H. Milne Edwards, 1837)
Blunt Slipper Lobster (Fao), Slipper Lobster (Aust)
- Scyllarus squammosus Milne Edwards, H. 1837. Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, comprenant l'anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces animaux. Paris : Libraire Encyclopedique de Roret Vol. 2 532 pp., Atlas 32 pp., 42 pls. [284].
Type data:
Syntype(s) MNHP (lost), Mauritius. - Scyllarus australis Fabricius, J.C. 1781. Species Insectorum exhibentes eorum Differentias, specificas, Synonyma auctorum, Loca natalia, Metamorphosia adiectis Observationibus, Descriptionibus. Hamburg & Kilonii : C.E. Bohnii Vol. 2 viii 552 pp. [questionably synonymised with S. squamosus by Holthuis (1991: 194), but as the type has been lost, and the type locality is non-specific, its identity remains uncertain, and therefore the name should not be given nomenclatural precedence at present].
Type data:
Status unknown, (apparently lost), 'Oceano australiori'.Type locality references:
Holthuis, L.B. 1991. FAO Species Catalogue. Vol. 13. Marine lobsters of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries known to date. FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125, 13: i-viii, 1-292. - Scyllarus sieboldi De Haan, W. 1841. 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 : Lugundi-Batavorum. [published from 1833–1850] [152 pls 36-37 fig. 1].
Type data:
Lectotype RMNH D959 ♂, Nagasaki, Kyushu, Japan.
Paralectotype(s) RMNH D1861 3 specimens, Japan, Nagasaki; RMNH D5514 2 dry specimens, Japan, Nagasaki; RMNH D5515 mouthparts dry (mouthparts of D5516), Japan, Nagasaki; RMNH D5516 3♂ 3♀ dry specimens, Japan; RMNH D971 2♀, Japan, Nagasaki; RMNH 1861 3 specimens; RMNH D5515; RMNH D5516 3♂ 3♀; MNHP PA–242 1 specimen.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. [255]. - Pseudibacus pfefferi Miers, E.J. 1882. On some Crustaceans collected at Mauritius. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1882: 339-342 pl. 20, 538-543 pl. 36 [542 pl. 36 figs 2, 3].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH 81.7 3 specimens, Mauritius.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Holthuis, L.B. 1991. FAO Species Catalogue. Vol. 13. Marine lobsters of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries known to date. FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125, 13: i-viii, 1-292 [179, 194]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Indo-west Pacific.
IMCRA
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, coral reef, rock bottom, rock reef, subtidal.
Extra Ecological Information
Nocturnal, depth to 80 m, most common 20 to 50 m.
General References
George, R.W. & Griffin, D.J.G. 1973. Two shovel-nosed lobsters of the genus Scyllarides (Decapoda, Scyllaridae) new to Australia. Crustaceana 24(1): 144-146 [145] (first Australian record)
Holthuis, L.B. 1946. Biological results of the Snellius Expedition XIV. The Decapoda Macrura of the Snellius Expedition. I. The Stenopodidae, Nephropsidae, Scyllaridae and Palinuridae. Temminckia 7: 1-177 11 pls [99] (full synonymy)
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 29-Mar-2012 | 29-Mar-2012 | MOVED | ||
| 10-May-2012 | 18-Apr-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 03-Jun-2010 | MODIFIED |