Relevant Synonyms - Misidentification -  drawing : Tuvia Kurz

SHORT DESCRIPTION Carapace subquadrate; lateral margins diverging anteriorly, tridentate; antero-lateral angle prominent. Rostrum obsolete. Inner orbital margin bidentate. Antepenultimate antennal segment acutely pointed, with external margin deeply cut into two lobes, anterior margin with 3-4 irregular lobes; distal segment with anterior margin deeply cut into five lobes. Median carinae rugose, with pregastric and cardiac teeth; lateral carinae coarsely rugose. Anterior margin of thoracic sternum concave, last thoracic sternite bearing a prominent median spine. Abdominal segments 2-5 with obtuse median carina dorsally; posterior margin of segments 1-4 medially excavate. Second abdominal pleuron triangular, distal angle acutely pointed. color : unrecorded. common size : TL 5.6 cm (max.). DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS Differs from S. arctus and S. pygmaeus in lacking a prominent rostrum; from S. caparti in the thoracic sternum being evenly concave anterior margin, and in the prominent spine on last thoracic sternite. BIOLOGY / ECOLOGY Poorly known. habitat : 10-70 m, on sandy bottom with Caulerpa and muddy bottom.

1st MEDITERRANEAN RECORD Alboran Sea, Spain, 1982. DISTRIBUTION Worldwide : Tropical and subtropical East Atlantic, from Senegal to Congo, and Cadiz, Spain. Mediterranean : a single record from Malaga, Spain (García Raso, 1982). ESTABLISHMENT SUCCESS Known from a single record. speculated reasons for success : - MODE OF INTRODUCTION Unknown. IMPORTANCE TO HUMANS None.

KEY REFERENCES Forest J., 1963. Sur deux Scyllarus de l'Atlantique tropical africain: S. paradoxus Miers et S. posteli sp. nov. Remarques sur les Scyllarus de l'Atlantique tropical. Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique, Monaco, 60(1259): 1-20. Garcia Raso J.E., 1982. Familia Scyllaridae Latreille 1825 (Crustacea, Decapoda) en la Región Sur-mediterránea española. Boletin de la Asociacion Española de Entomologia, 6(1): 73-78. Pozuelo M., A. Arias, A. Rodriguez, J. Pettenghi, 1976. Presencia de Scyllarus posteli Forest en la Bahía de Cádiz (región sudatlántica española). Investigacion Pesquera, 40(1): 85-93.   FEEDBACK / COMMENTS TO AUTHORS

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