Carinosquilla lirata ( Kemp & Chopra, 1921 )

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 : 339

Carinosquilla lirata ( Kemp & Chopra, 1921)

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Squilla lirata Kemp & Chopra, 1921: 303–306 , fig. 3–4.— Shanbhogue 1971b: 199, fig. 1.— Ghosh & Manning 1988: 658.

Carinosquilla lirata .— Moosa 1975: 10.— Ahyong 2001: 207.— Ahyong 2006: 311, 312, fig. 2.— Ahyong 2016: 459, fig. 3E.— Trivedi et al. 2020: 226.

Keijia lirata .— Manning, 1995: 205–207, figs. 105c, 106c, 107c, 108c, 127, 128.— Moosa 2000: 443.

Material examined. FSI/VIZAG/CRUST. 254, 1 male (TL 75 mm), 20°00.4’N, 86°39.8’E, 34–38 m, coll. K. Silambarasan, 16 October 2019 .

Remarks. The specimen agrees with the descriptions provided by Kemp & Chopra (1921) and Ahyong (2016). Carinosquilla lirata closely resembles C. multicarinata , but several distinguishing features separate the two species. Notably, C. multicarinata possesses a pair of dark brown to black submedian patches on abdominal somite 5, which are absent in C. lirata . Additionally, the mandibular palp is present in C. multicarinata but absent in C. lirata . The shape of the prelateral lobe of the telson also differs, being sharp in C. multicarinata and blunt in C. lirata . Furthermore, the dactylus of the raptorial claw in C. lirata bears six teeth, whereas C. multicarinata has only five.

Distribution. Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore to Madras, India ( Ahyong 2016) this study). A new record for northeast coast of India.

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.