Scyllarides keonigi

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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)

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.
An example of a specimen in a hard nodule
Two views of the same specimen, as found, washed out on the foreshore. No preparation has been carried out on this specimen
Specimen with tail section separated