Quollastria gonypetes (Kemp, 1911)

Ahyong, Shane T. & Kumar, Appukuttannair Biju, 2018, First records of seven species of mantis shrimp from India (Crustacea: Stomatopoda), Zootaxa 4370 (4), pp. 381-394 : 390

Quollastria gonypetes (Kemp, 1911)

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Squilla gonypetes KEMP, 1911: 96 [TYPE LOCALITY: RESTRICTED TO VICINITY OF CHEDUBA ID., BURMA, 18°48’N, 93°38’E, 13 M, BY LECTOTYPE SELECTION; MANNING 1978B]; 1913: 54–55, PL. 4 FIGS 42–44.

Oratosquilla gonypetes .—MOOSA 1986: 408.—LYLA et al. 1997: 5, 8, 14, FIG. 13.

Oratosquillina gonypetes . — MANNING 1995: 25, 225, 226, 228.

Quollastria gonypetes . — AHYONG 2001: 304–306, FIG. 147.—AHYONG et al. 2008: 167, FIG. 135–136.—AHYONG 2013: 95, FIG. 2C .

Material examined. Tamil Nadu: AM P 100656, 1 male (TL 71 mm), Muttom, coll. P. Ng et al., 2017 ; ZRC, 1 female (TL 65 mm), Muttom, coll. P. Ng et al., 2017; ZRC, 1 female (TL 80 mm), Muttom, 21 March 2017; DABFUK, 1 female (TL 72 mm), Muttom, 21 March 2017.

Remarks. Although widely reported from the southwestern Pacific to the western Indian Ocean, the present specimens are the first records from the west coast of India. The characteristic colour pattern (paired black-squares on abdominal somite 5) is eVident, as are the low posterodorsal carinae on the telson reported for larger specimens (Manning 1978b; Ahyong 2001).

Distribution. Western Pacific from Japan and Australia westwards to India, east Africa and the Red Sea; 13– 110 (Ahyong 2001).

Figures

FIGURE 2. A, Carinosquilla multicarinata (WHITE, 1849), FEMALE, TL 90 MM, TUTICORIN, ZRC; B, Carinosquilla spinosa (AHYONG & NAIYANETR, 2002), FEMALE, TL 92 MM, TUTICORIN, DABFUK; C, Erugosquilla woodmasoni (KEMP, 1911), FEMALE, TL 111 MM, TUTICORIN, ZRC; D, Harpiosquilla indica MANNING, 1969, FEMALE, TL 150 MM, TUTICORIN, ZRC; E, Harpiosquilla melanoura MANNING, 1968, MALE, TL 120 MM, MUTTOM, ZRC; F, Oratosquillina inornata (TATE, 1883), MALE, TL 150 MM, TUTICORIN,ZRC.

FIGURE 3. A, Quollastria gonypetes (KEMP, 1911), FEMALE, TL 72 MM, MUTTOM, DABFUK; B, Quollastria kapala AHYONG, 2001, FEMALE,TL 88 MM, MUTTOM,ZRC; C, Squilloides leptosquilla (BROOKS, 1886), MALE,TL 105 MM, KOLLAM,ZRC.