Squilla mantis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Koulouri, Panayota, Gerovasileiou, Vasilis, Bailly, Nicolas & Dounas, Costas, 2020, Stomatopoda of Greece: an annotated checklist, Biodiversity Data Journal 8, pp. 47183-47183 : 47183

Squilla mantis (Linnaeus, 1758)

mantis Linnaeus, 1758

Distribution

E. Mediterranean: Aegean Sea, Peloponnese, Nafplion ( Guérin 1832); Saronikos Gulf ( Panagiotopoulos 1916, Athanassapoulos 1917); Crete Island, Malia Bay, 30 m, silty sand with Caulerpa prolifera ; Rethymno Bay; Chania Bay; off Georgioupolis coast, 105 m; Ierapetra coasts, 70 m ( Dounas and Steudel 1994); Rhodes Island, 31-49 m ( Kevrekidis and Galil 2003); in numerous localities of the coasts of Egypt, Israel, Syria, Turkey and Cyprus in depths from 2 up to 112 m and muddy substrates ( Lewinsohn and Manning 1980 and references therein). Adriatic Sea: off Fano fishing grounds, 6-16 m ( Piccinetti and Piccinetti Manfrin 1970a, Piccinetti and Piccinetti Manfrin 1970b, Piccinetti and Piccinetti Manfrin 1971). C. Mediterranean: coasts of Tunisia, 22-90 m ( Forest and Guinot 1956, El Lakhrach et al. 2012). W. Mediterranean: Gulf of Naples; Gulf of Lions; off Algeria, 80-280 m ( Manning 1977, Lewinsohn and Manning 1980 and references therein). Atlantic Ocean: coasts of southern Europe, Canary Islands and West Africa from Morocco to southern Angola; shore to a depth of more than 200 m (186-247 m), generally in 120 m or less ( Manning 1977).