Oratosquillina interrupta ( 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 : 345

Oratosquillina interrupta ( Kemp, 1911)

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Squilla interrupta Kemp, 1911: 98 .— Kemp 1913: 72, pl. 5 fig. 63–65.

Oratosquillina interrupta .— Ahyong 2001: 293, fig. 142.—Ahyong et al. 2008: 157–158, fig. 124, 125.— Ahyong 2016: 466– 467, fig. 5B.— Trivedi et al. 2020: 229.

Material examined. FSI/ VIZAG / CRUST. 228, 2 males (TL 85–91 mm), 1 female (TL 110 mm), 16°53.2’N, 82°36.3’E, 115–119 m, coll. K. Silambarasan, 28 December 2020 .

Remarks. The present specimen agrees with published accounts ( Ahyong 2001; Ahyong et al. 2008).Abdominal spination is as follows: submedian 5–6, intermediate 4–6, lateral 3–6, marginal 1–5.

Distribution. Persian Gulf, India, eastwards to Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, and Australia ( Ahyong 2016; Trivedi et al., 2020).

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.