Miyakella nepa (Latreille, 1828)

Silambarasan, Krishnan, Kar, A. B., Prasad, G. V. A., Pattnayak, S. K. & Jeyabaskaran, R., 2025, On a collection of stomatopod Crustacea in the Fishery Survey of India, research cruises from the northeast coast of India, Zootaxa 5637 (2), pp. 337-350 : 344

Miyakella nepa (Latreille in Latreille, Le Peletier, Serville & Guérin, 1828)

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Squilla nepa Latreille, 1828: 471 .

Squilla edwardsi Giebel, 1861: 320 .

Oratosquilla nepa .— Manning 1971: 3.

Miyakea nepa .— Ahyong 2001: 279–281, fig. 136.— Ahyong & Naiyanetr 2002: 299.—Ahyong et al. 2008, 140, fig. 110, 111. Miyakella nepa .— Ahyong & Low 2013: 99.— Trivedi et al. 2020: 229.

Material examined. FSI/ VIZAG / CRUST. 226, 1 male (TL 120 mm), 17°69.6’N, 83°30.2’E, coll. K. Silambarasan, 18 March 2020 .

Remarks. Although Miyakella nepa was reportedly caught in large quantities along the southwest coast of India, particularly off the Mangalore coast ( Shanbhogue 1986), only a few stray specimens were obtained in the present collection.

Distribution. Western Indian Ocean to India, Vietnam, Thailand (including Phuket), Hong Kong, Taiwan, the Philippines, Australia, and New Caledonia ( Ahyong 2007).

Figures

FIGURE 3. A, Lophosquilla tiwarii Blumstein, 1974, male, TL 90 mm, FSI/VIZAG/CRUST:218; B, Lenisquilla gilesi (Kemp, 1911), female, TL 85 mm, FSI/VIZAG/CRUST:220; C, Miyakella nepa (Latreille in Latreille, Le Peletier, Serville & Guérin, 1828), male, TL 120 mm, FSI/VIZAG/CRUST:226; D, Oratosquillina inornata (Tate, 1883), female, TL 98 mm, FSI/VIZAG/ CRUST:229; E, Oratosquillina interrupta (Kemp, 1911), female, TL 110 mm, FSI/VIZAG/CRUST:228; F, Oratosquillina quinquedentata (Brooks, 1886), female, TL 99 mm, FSI/VIZAG/CRUST:225.