Erugosquilla woodmasoni ( Kemp, 1911 )

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 : 341

Erugosquilla woodmasoni ( Kemp, 1911)

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Squilla woodmasoni Kemp, 1911: 99 .— Kemp 1913: 74, pl. 5 fig. 63–65,.

Oratosquilla woodmasoni .— Manning 1978c: 36, fig. 21–22.

Erugosquilla woodmasoni .— Ahyong 2001: 251–253, fig. 123.— Ahyong & Naiyanetr 2002: 296.— Ahyong & Kumar 2018: 388 , fig. 2C.— Trivedi et al. 2020: 227.

Material examined. FSI/VIZAG/CRUST. 221, 4 males (TL 62–104 mm), 6 females (TL 90–122 mm), 17°48.3’N, 83°29.2’E, 32–33 m, coll. K. Silambarasan, 13 June 2020 .

Remarks. The morphological characteristics of the present specimens of Erugosquilla woodmasoni are consistent with the description provided by Ahyong et al. (2008). According to his account, the lobe between the terminal spines of the uropodal protopod is rounded and the anterior lobe of seventh thoracic somite is blunt. The present specimen also matches the illustrations in Ahyong et al. (2008: figs. 76, 77). Furthermore, the specimens align with descriptions by Manning (1978c) and Ahyong (2001), confirming their agreement with previously documented morphological features.

Distribution. Western Indian Ocean, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the Philippines, Japan and Australia ( Ahyong 2012; Trivedi et al. 2020).

Figures

FIGURE 2. A, Lysiosquilla tredecimdentata Holthuis, 1941, male, TL 260 mm, FSI/VIZAG/CRUST:217; B, Clorida bombayensis (Chhapgar & Sane, 1967), male, TL 63 mm, FSI/VIZAG/CRUST:219; C, Erugosquilla woodmasoni (Kemp, 1911), male, TL 95 mm, FSI/VIZAG/CRUST:221; D, Harpiosquilla annandalei (Kemp, 1911), female, TL 90 mm, FSI/ VIZAG/CRUST:222; E, Harpiosquilla harpax (de Haan, 1844), male, TL 120 mm, FSI/VIZAG/CRUST:223; F, Carinosquilla lirata (Kemp & Chopra, 1921), male, TL 75 mm, FSI/VIZAG/CRUST:254.