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Scyllarus depressus (Smith, 1881) 
AphiaID: 158377

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Macrura Reptantia (Suborder) > Achelata (Infraorder) > Scyllaridae (Family) > Scyllarinae (Subfamily) > Scyllarus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Scyllarus Fabricius, 1775
Synonymised
taxa
  Arctus depressus Smith, 1881 (basionym)
Scyllarus nearctus Holthuis, 1960 (primary synonym)
Sources  basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

basis of record: Williams, A.B. 1984. Shrimps, lobsters, and crabs of the Atlantic coast of the eastern United States, Maine to Florida. Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington. 550 p. [details]

additional source: Felder, D. L., F. Álvarez, J. W. Goy, and R. Lemaitre. 2009. Decapoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, with Comments on the Amphionidacea, Pp. 1019–1104 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English scaled slipper lobster  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution type locality: Massachusetts [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Decapod Collection
To ITIS
Note  Distribution: off Martha's Vineyard, Mass.; off Cape Hatteras, N.C., through Gulf of Mexico and West Indies to State of Sao Paulo, Brazil. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158377
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-26 07:43:32Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2009-02-23 14:08:32Z  changed  Chan, Tin-Yam
  
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  Citation: Chan, T. (2013). Scyllarus depressus (Smith, 1881). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158377 on 2013-05-22
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