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Squilla empusa Say, 1818 
AphiaID: 158466

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Hoplocarida (Subclass) > Stomatopoda (Order) > Unipeltata (Suborder) > Squilloidea (Superfamily) > Squillidae (Family) > Squilla (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Edited by Database Management Team
Rank Species
Parent Squilla Fabricius, 1787
Sources  original description: Say, T., 1818. An account of the Crustacea of the United States, part 7.— Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1: 374-401. [details]

basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

basis of record: Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C  [details]

additional source: Schram, F.R.; Müller, H.-G. (2004). Catalog and bibliography of the fossil and recent Stomatopoda. Backhuys Publishers: Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5782-144-3. 264 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Reaka, M. L., D. K. Camp, F. Álvarez, A. G. Gracia, M. Ortiz, and A. R. Vázquez-Bader. 2009. Stomatopoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 901–921 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A& [details]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Dutch mantisgarnaal  [details]
English mantis shrimp  [details]
Distribution Gulf of Mexico [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Specimen  Lectotype: BMNH 158c, locality Rhode Island [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (8 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (141 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (25 nucleotides; 33 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Stomatopod Collection
To ITIS
Note  Distribution: Virginian, southside of Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:158466
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-26 07:43:32Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2009-07-15 09:44:21Z  changed  db_admin
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Squilla empusa Say, 1818. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=158466 on 2013-05-18
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