Erythrosquilla

Taxobox | name = "Erythrosquilla"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Crustacea
classis = Malacostraca
ordo = Stomatopoda
superfamilia = Erythrosquilloidea
superfamilia_authority = Manning & Bruce, 1984 cite book |url=http://www.nhm.org/research/publications/CrustaceaClassification.pdf |title=An Updated Classification of the Recent Crustacea |author=J. W. Martin & G. E. Davis |year=2001 |pages=132 pp |publisher=Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County |format=PDF]
familia = Erythrosquillidae
familia_authority = nowrap|Manning & Bruce, 1984
genus = "Erythrosquilla"
genus_authority = Manning & Bruce, 1984 cite journal |quotes=no |journal=Journal of Crustacean Biology |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=329–332 |year=1984 |title="Erythrosquilla megalops", a remarkable new stomatopod from the western Indian Ocean |author=Raymond B. Manning & A. J. Bruce |doi=10.2307/1548030]
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "Erythrosquilla hamano"
"Erythrosquilla megalops"

"Erythrosquilla" is a genus of mantis shrimp, placed in its own family (Erythrosquillidae) and superfamily (Erythrosquilloidea) comprising two species:
*"Erythrosquilla hamano" Ahyong, 2001
*"Erythrosquilla megalops" Manning & Bruce, 1984The family is distinguished from other stomatopod families by the presence of a ridge on the mid-line of the telson cite book |url=http://www.amonline.net.au/pdf/publications/1333.pdf |title=Revision of the Australian Stomatopod Crustacea |author=Shane T. Ahyong |publisher=Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 26 |year=2001 |pages=1–326 |id=ISBN 0-7347-2303-2] .

"Erythrosquilla megalops"

"E. megalops" is only known from the waters off Somalia, in the Indian Ocean, which gives rise to the generic name ("Mare Erythraeum" being an old name for the Indian Ocean) . The raptorial claws each have five teeth, rather than the 8–9 seen in "E. hamano" .

"Erythrosquilla hamano"

"E. hamano" is known from Japanese water in the East China Sea and around Rottnest Island, Australia. This apparently disjunct distribution is also known in the parasquillid mantis shrimp "Pseudosquillopsis dofleini". Among the differences between it and "E. megalops", the most obvious is that it has more teeth on the raptorial claw than "E. megalops" .

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