Acanthosquilla is a genus of stomatopod crustacean. The American carcinologist Raymond B. Manning named and first circumscribed the genus in 1963.[1] As of 2018, the World Register of Marine Species recognizes the following eight species:[2]

Acanthosquilla
A. multifasciata
A. tigrina, carapace and anterior appendages
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Stomatopoda
Family: Nannosquillidae
Genus: Acanthosquilla
Manning, 1963[1][2]
Type species
Lysiosquilla multifasciata

References edit

  1. ^ a b Manning, Raymond B. (1963). "Preliminary Revision of the Genera Pseudosquilla and Lysiosquilla with Descriptions of Six New Genera (Crustacea: Stomatopoda)". Bulletin of Marine Science. 13 (2): 319–320.
  2. ^ a b WoRMS (2018). "Acanthosquilla Manning, 1963". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  3. ^ a b Wood-Mason, James (1895). Figures and Descriptions of Nine Species of Squillidæ from the Collection in the Indian Museum. Calcutta: Trustees of the Indian Museum. pp. 1–2, Pl. I: Figs. 4–7.
  4. ^ Ahyong, Shane T. (2002). "Stomatopoda (Crustacea) from the Marquesas Islands: results of MUSORSTOM 9" (PDF). Zoosystema. 24 (2): 359–361.
  5. ^ Manning, Raymond B. (1970) [1969]. "Some Stomatopod Crustaceans from Tuléar, Madagascar". Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. 2e Série. 41 (6): 1434–1438.
  6. ^ Ahyong, Shane T. (2008) [2007]. "Stomatopod Crustacea from the Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia". Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement. 73: 48–51. doi:10.18195/issn.0313-122x.73.2007.041-055.
  7. ^ Blumstein, Radda (1974). "Stomatopod Crustaceans from the Gulf of Tonkin with the Description of New Species". Crustaceana. 26 (2): 113–114. doi:10.1163/156854074X00460. JSTOR 20102071.
  8. ^ Nobili, Giuseppe (1903). "Contributo alla fauna carcinologica di Borneo". Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della R. Università di Torino. 18 (447): 28–30.
  9. ^ Moosa, M. Kasim (1973). "The Stomatopod Crustacea by the Mariel King Memorial Expedition in Maluku Waters in 1970" (PDF). Marine Research in Indonesia. 13: 15–17. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 May 2018.

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