Oratosquillina inornata (Tate, 1883)

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 : 389-390

Oratosquillina inornata (Tate, 1883)

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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).

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.

FIGURE1. A–B, Lysiosquillina lisa AHYONG &RANDALL,2001,ANTERIOR CEPHALOTHORAx AND DORSAL HABITUS,MOULT,MALE,TL 280 MM, TUTICORIN, DABFUK; C, Odontodactylus cultrifer (WHITE, 1851), MALE, TL 90 MM, MUTTOM, DABFUK; D, Odontodactylus japonicus (DE HAAN,1844), FEMALE,TL 84 MM, MUTTOM,DABFUK; E, Faughnia formosae MANNING & CHAN, 1997, MALE,TL 103 MM,MUTTOM, DABFUK.