WoRMS taxon details
original description
(of Scyllarus herklotsii Herklots, 1851) Herklots, J. A. (1851). Specimen zoographicum inaugurale, continens additamenta ad faunam carcinologicam Africae occidentalis, sive descriptiones specierum novarum e crustaceorum ordine, quas in Guinea collegit vir strenuus H. S. Pel. J. W. van Leeuwen, Lugduni-Batavorum, [ii] + 28 pp., 2 pls. , available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.13313 [details]
additional source
Holthuis, L. B. (1991). FAO species catalogue. Vol 13. Marine lobsters of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries known to date. <em>FAO fisheries Synopsis.</em> 125(13): 1–292. [details] Available for editors [request]
Lectotype RMNH D. 973, geounit Ghana [details]
From other sources
Depth range mostly between 5 and 70m, but also reported from deeper waters (beyond 200m) [details]
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