Scyllarides aequinoctialis explained

Scyllarides aequinoctialis is a species of slipper lobster that lives in the western Atlantic Ocean from South Carolina to São Paulo State, Brazil, including the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, and Bermuda.[1] Its common name is Spanish slipper lobster. It grows up to 30cm (10inches) long, with a carapace 12cm (05inches) long.[1] S. aequinoctialis is the type species of the genus Scyllarides and the first species of slipper lobster to be described from the Western Atlantic.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Book: FAO Species Catalogue, Volume 13. Marine Lobsters of the World . ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/009/t0411e/t0411e31.pdf . Scyllarides aequinoctialis . Lipke B. Holthuis . Lipke Holthuis . Rome . . 1991 . 92-5-103027-8 . FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125 . 183–184.
  2. Lipke B. Holthuis . Lipke Holthuis . 2002 . The Indo-Pacific scyllarine lobsters (Crustacea, Decapoda, Scyllaridae) . Zoosystema . 24 . 3 . 499–683 . PDF.