Scyllarides herklotsii
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Family: | Scyllaridae |
| Genus: | Scyllarides |
| Species: | S. herklotsii
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| Binomial name | |
| Scyllarides herklotsii | |
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Scyllarus herklotsii Herklots, 1851 | |
Scyllarides herklotsii is a species of slipper lobster from the Atlantic coast West Africa. It is edible, but is not commercially fished, and is taken only by accident.[3]
Scyllarides herklotsii was named in 1851 by Jan Adrian (or Janus Adrianus) Herklots in a
Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum.[5] The species is found from Senegal, where its range overlaps slightly with that of Scyllarides latus, south to Ponta do Pinda, Angola. It usually lives at depths of 5–70 metres (16–230 ft), but has been recorded from depths as great as 200 m (660 ft).[3] It prefers sandy and rocky substrates.[3]
Scyllarides herklotsii reaches a total length of 32 centimetres (13 in), but does not generally exceed 25 cm (9.8 in) long.[3] It may be differentiated from S. latus by the lower, more rounded nature of the tubercles on the carapace.[3]
References
- . Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ "Scyllarides herklotsii (Herklots, 1851)". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved May 12, 2011.
- ^ ISBN 92-5-103027-8.
- ^ Janus Adrianus Herklots (1851). Additamenta ad faunam carcinologicam Africae occidentalis (Doctor of Philosophy thesis). Academia Lugduno-Batava.
- ^ Tin-Yam Chan & Charles Fransen (2010). "Scyllarides herklotsii (Herklots, 1851)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved May 12, 2011.