Heterosquilloides Manning, 1966

Brokensha, Rouane, Landschoff, Jannes & Griffiths, Charles, 2025, Taxonomic guide to the mantis shrimps (Crustacea: Stomatopoda) of South Africa, Zootaxa 5713 (1), pp. 1-93 : 53

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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5713.1.1

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Heterosquilloides Manning, 1966
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Heterosquilloides Manning, 1966 View in CoL

Heterosquilloides Manning, 1966: 124 View in CoL . [ Type species Lysiosquilla insolita Manning, 1963a , by original designation. Gender masculine].

Diagnosis. Cornea bilobed, with two rows of ommatidia in the mid-band; eyes not concealed by rostral plate. A2 protopod without mesial papillae.Raptorial claw propodus with 4 proximal movable spines. Pereopods 1–2 with oval, elongate endopods. Telson with low, irregular dorsal carinae or spinules; posterior margin with movable SM teeth and 2 pairs of fixed primary teeth; 4 IM denticles present; telson ventral surface without post-anal spine. Uropodal protopod with inner spine as long as or longer than outer; with ventral spine anterior to endopod articulation.

Composition. Heterosquilloides armata ( Smith, 1881) ; H. insignis ( Kemp, 1911) ; H. insolitus ( Manning, 1963a) .

Remarks. The single known Indo-Pacific species is known from South Africa.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

Order

Stomatopoda

Family

Tetrasquillidae

Loc

Heterosquilloides Manning, 1966

Brokensha, Rouane, Landschoff, Jannes & Griffiths, Charles 2025
2025
Loc

Heterosquilloides

Manning, R. B. 1966: 124
1966
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