Scyllarides squammosus

Scyllarides squammosus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Achelata
Family: Scyllaridae
Genus: Scyllarides
Species: S. squammosus
Binomial name
Scyllarides squammosus
(H. Milne-Edwards, 1837)
Synonyms [1]
  • Scyllarides sieboldi (De Haan, 1841)
  • Scyllarus sieboldi De Haan, 1841
  • Scyllarus squammosus H. Milne-Edwards, 1837

Scyllarides squammosus is a species of slipper lobster known as the 'blunt slipper lobster. It is found throughout the Indo-West Pacific region. Specifically its range is from Australia (Queensland, New South Wales, West Australia), Japan, Hawaii, Melanesia, New Caledonia to East Africa. Scyllarides squammosus has been found at depths from 7.5 m to 71 m.[2]

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