species: Alachosquilla vicina in Lizard Island area: all known taxa (Lizard Island Field Guide)
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Alachosquilla vicina


©Miriam Henze: Alachosquilla vicina female from Lizard Island (lab photo).

©Miriam Henze: Alachosquilla vicina female from Lizard Island (lab photo).

©Miriam Henze: Alachosquilla vicina female from Lizard Island (lab photo).

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Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Malacostraca
Order Stomatopoda
Family Nannosquillidae
Genus Alachosquilla
Species Alachosquilla vicina

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Lizard Island Field Guide
Lizard Island area: all known taxa

Colours

              

Distinguishing features

Cream coloured body with pronounced transverse bars. Tail ending in two tiers of spines. Raptorial claws with 9-11 teeth. Adults live in monogamous pairs.

Information provided by Dr Miriam Henze based on personal observations, web resource Roy's list and Ahyong (2001)

Size

  • Up to 3.2 cm (Length)

Depth range

  • From 0 m to 2 m

Synonyms

Comments

Roy Caldwell provided LIRS with a list of stomatopods he collected at Lizard Island between 1986 and 1997. It includes Alachosquilla vicina with the note: "from larvae and adult pairs in 0 - 2 m".

by Anne Hoggett

Distribution


©Atlas of Living Australia: Australian distribution

Web resources

References

  • Ahyong, S.T. (2001). Revision of the stomatopod Crustacea, Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement, 26: 1-326. LIRS catalog number LIRS 2099.
  • Blanco, M.M. and S.N. Patek (2014). Muscle trade-offs in a power-amplified prey capture system. Evolution, 68: 1399-1414. LIRS catalog number 1777.
  • Feller, K.D., J.H. Cohen and T.W. Cronin (2015). Seeing double: visual physiology of double-retina eye ontogeny in stomatopod crustaceans, Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 201: 331-339. LIRS catalog number 1876.
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