Kingdom Animalia Class Malacostraca Family Scyllaridae Phylum Arthropoda Order Decapoda | Subphylum Crustacea Infraorder Achelata Genus Scyllarides Rank Species | |
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Scientific name Scyllarides aequinoctialis Similar Scyllarides, Decapoda, Parribacus antarcticus, Parribacus, Panulirus guttatus | ||
Langosta pantufla scyllarides aequinoctialis chichiriviche de la costa
Scyllarides aequinoctialis is a species of slipper lobster that lives in the western Atlantic Ocean from South Carolina to São Paulo State, Brazil, including the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea and Bermuda. Its common name is Spanish slipper lobster. It grows up to 30 centimetres (12 in) long, with a carapace 12 cm (4.7 in) long. S. aequinoctialis is the type species of the genus Scyllarides, and the first species of slipper lobster to be described from the Western Atlantic.
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