WoRMS taxon details

Scyllarides herklotsii (Herklots, 1851)

241309  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:241309)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Arthropoda (Phylum)
  4. Crustacea (Subphylum)
  5. Multicrustacea (Superclass)
  6. Malacostraca (Class)
  7. Eumalacostraca (Subclass)
  8. Eucarida (Superorder)
  9. Decapoda (Order)
  10. Pleocyemata (Suborder)
  11. Achelata (Infraorder)
  12. Scyllaridae (Family)
  13. Arctidinae (Subfamily)
  14. Scyllarides (Genus)
  15. Scyllarides herklotsii (Species)
accepted
Species
Scyllarus herklotsii Herklots, 1851 · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(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] OpenAccess publication
Lectotype  RMNH D. 973, geounit Ghana  
Lectotype RMNH D. 973, geounit Ghana [details]
, Type locality contained in Ghanaian Exclusive Economic Zone  
type locality contained in Ghanaian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Depth range mostly between 5 and 70m, but also reported from deeper waters (beyond 200m)  
Depth range mostly between 5 and 70m, but also reported from deeper waters (beyond 200m) [details]
DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Scyllarides herklotsii (Herklots, 1851). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=241309 on 2025-08-16
Date
action
by
2007-06-26 14:25:55Z
created
Fransen, Charles
2009-02-23 14:08:32Z
changed
Chan, Tin-Yam
2020-08-28 16:09:27Z
changed
De Grave, Sammy
2020-10-11 15:06:18Z
changed
De Grave, Sammy

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Nomenclature

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] OpenAccess publication

Other

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  PDF available [request]

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Lectotype RMNH D. 973, geounit Ghana [details]
Unreviewed
Depth range mostly between 5 and 70m, but also reported from deeper waters (beyond 200m) [details]
    Definitions

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LanguageName 
English red squat lobsterred slipper lobster  [details]
Fanti po-sesaw  [details]
French cigale rouge  [details]
Portuguese lagosta do pedracigarra do mar  [details]
Spanish cigarra roja  [details]
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Scyllarides herklotsii) 
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 2 proteins) 
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient) 
To NMNH Extant Collection (IZ Scyllarides herklotsii USNM 112524) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (4 records) 
To ITIS
Unreviewed

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