First records of seven species of mantis shrimp from India (Crustacea: Stomatopoda)
Author
Ahyong, Shane T.
Author
Kumar, Appukuttannair Biju
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-01-12
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4
381
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4370.4.4
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Oratosquillina inornata
(Tate, 1883)
(
Fig. 2F
)
Squilla
inornata
TATE, 1883: 51, PL. 2 [
TYPE
LOCALITY: GULF
ST. VINCENT
,
SOUTH
AUSTRALIA
,
AUSTRALIA
].
Squilla oratoria
VAR.
perpensa
.—
KEMP 1913: 71 [PART, NOT
Squilla oratoria
VAR.
perpensa
KEMP, 1911
].
Oratosquilla hindustanica
MANNING, 1978B: 15–17, FIGS. 7, 15 [TYPE LOCALITY: TUTICORIN, MADRAS, GULF OF MANAAR, INDIA, 8°47’N, 78°08’E].
Oratosquilla solicitans
MANNING, 1978B: 25–28, FIGS. 13, 14, 15 [TYPE LOCALITY: SANDAKAN, SABAH, MALAYSIA, 5°50’N, 118°07’E].
Oratosquilla megalops
MANNING, 1980B: 523–524,
FIG. 1
[TYPE LOCALITY: ANPING, TAIwAN].—LIU & WANG 1999: 579.
Oratosquilla inornata
.—SHANBOGUE 1969: 36; 1986: 550–551, PL. 5 FIG. 28.—GHOSH 1998: 421, 430–431.
Oratosquillina inornata
.—
AHYONG 2001: 291–293, FIG. 141.—AHYONG & NAIYANETR 2002: 300.—AHYONG
et al.
2008: 154–155,
FIGS. 122–123.
Material
examined.
Tamil Nadu
:
ZRC
,
1 male
(TL
97 mm
), Tuticorin,
22 March 2017
.
Remarks
.
Oratosquillina inornata
was preViously recorded from Tuticorin as the
type
material of its junior synonym,
Oratosquillina hindustanica
(Manning, 1978b)
, which was itself reported by Kemp (1913) under the name
Squilla oratoria
Var.
perpensa
Kemp, 1911
(currently
Oratosquillina perpensa
).
Distribution
.
Eastern
India
to the Andaman Sea,
Australia
, the South
China
Sea and
Taiwan
;
O. inornata
is yet to be recorded from western
India
; intertidal to at least
70 m
(Ahyong & Naiyanetr 2002).