Victoriasquilla, Ahyong, 2009

Ahyong, Shane T., 2009, Victoriasquilla poorei, a new genus and species of mantis shrimp from southern Australia, and a range extension for Hadrosquilla edgari Ahyong, 2001 (Crustacea: Stomatopoda: Nannosquillidae), Memoirs of Museum Victoria 66 (1), pp. 1-4 : 1

Victoriasquilla gen nov.

Diagnosis. Cornea subglobular. Rostral plate with single anterior median projection. Antennal protopod with 2 mesial and 1 ventral papillae. Mandibular palp absent. Maxillipeds 1–5 with epipod. Raptorial claw dactylus with 8 teeth; ischium unarmed. Abdominal somite 6 with posterolateral spines; sternum unarmed. Telson dorsal surface with posteromedian projection, otherwise unarmed; ‘false-eave’ absent; margins with movable submedian teeth, intermediate and lateral primary teeth, and four intermediate denticles.

Etymology. Derived from a combination of the Australian state name, Victoria, and the generic name Squilla . Gender feminine.

Type species. Victoriasquilla poorei gen. et sp. nov.