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Scyllarides
keonigi
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Infraorder |
Family |
Subfamily |
Genus |
Species |
Comments / Synonyms |
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PALINURA Latreille, 1803 |
SCYLLARIDAE Latreille, 1825 |
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SCYLLARIDES GILL, 1898 |
Scyllarides tuberculatus (König, 1825) |
Scyllaridia koenigii Bell, 1858 Scyllarides koenigi (Bell, 1858) |
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Scyllarides Keonigi is a slipper lobster type and is quite rare. Often found as a tail section, or as a tail showing in a hard dense nodule. Good specimens are very hard to come by. |
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An example
of a specimen in a hard nodule
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Two views
of the same specimen, as found, washed out on the foreshore. No preparation
has been carried out on this specimen
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Specimen
with tail section separated
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