Ahyong, S.T. (2004). New species and new records of stomatopod Crustacea from the Philippines. Zootaxa 793: 1-28.

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http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2004f/z00793f.pdf

Twenty-one species of stomatopod Crustaceans are reported from Balicasag Island, Philippines, and from various Philippine localities visited by the 1907–1910 Albatross Expedition. Four superfamilies, six families and 15 genera are represented. One new genus and five new species are described: Gonodactyloideus rubrus sp. nov., Lysiosquilla isos sp. nov., Carinosquilla balicasag sp. nov., Cloridina albatrossae sp. nov. and Visaya lira gen. et sp. nov. Previous records of Odontodactylus brevirostris (Miers) and Quollastria imperialis (Manning) (as Oratosquilla imperialis) from the Philippines are based on O. hansensii (Pocock) and Q. capricornae Ahyong, respectively. Nine other previously described species are newly reported from the Philippines. Haptosquilla tuberosa (Pocock), Lysiosquilla sulcirostris Kemp, Lysiosquillina lisa Ahyong & Randall, Lysiosquilloides siamensis Naiyanetr, Faughnia formosae Manning & Chan, Busquilla quadraticauda (Fukuda), Carinosquilla carinata (Serène), Erugosquilla grahami Ahyong & Manning, and Quollastria kapala Ahyong are also reported herein. The known Philippine stomatopod fauna is increased from 70 to 85 species. A key to the species of Gonodactyloideus is also provided.

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