Squilloides leptosquilla ( Brooks, 1886 )

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 : 346-347

Squilloides leptosquilla ( Brooks, 1886)

( Fig. 4B )

Squilla leptosquilla Brooks, 1886: 30–34 , pl. 1 figs. 1–2.— Kemp 1913: 46–48.

Squilloides leptosquilla .— Shanbhogue 1969: 36.— Ahyong 2001: 310–312, fig. 150. —Ahyong et al. 2008: 177–178, fig. 141– 143.—Ahyong 2013: 96, fig. 2D.— Trivedi et al. 2020: 230.

Material examined. FSI/VIZAG/CRUST. 232, 1 female (TL 120.0 mm), 19°26.4’N, 85°39.4’E, 138–140 m, coll. K. Silambarasan, 15 March 2020 .

Remarks. Squilloides leptosquilla has been documented from various localities in Indian waters, typically occurring at depths exceeding 100 m. The specimen examined in this study was collected from at 138– 140 m. The morphological characteristics of the present specimen were found to align closely with descriptions provided by Ahyong et al. (2008). The pattern of abdominal spination observed in the specimen is as follows: submedian 6, intermediate 1–6, lateral 1–6, and marginal 1–5.

Distribution. Indonesia, the Philippines, Andaman Sea, Taiwan, Japan, and Australia (Ahyong et al. 2008; Trivedi et al. 2020); now from the northeast coast of India.

Figures

FIGURE 4.A, Oratosquillina perpensa (Kemp, 1911), female, TL 98 mm, FSI/VIZAG/CRUST:229; B, Squilloides leptosquilla, female, TL 120 mm, FSI/VIZAG/CRUST:232.