Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Eucarida > Order Decapoda > Suborder Pleocyemata > Infraorder Achelata > Family Scyllaridae > Subfamily Scyllarinae > Genus Scyllarus

Scyllarus pygmaeus (Spence Bate, 1888)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Scyllarus*	Fabricius, 1775	accepted genus name
*Arctus*	De Haan, 1849	synonym

Species group names

*Arctus pygmaeus*	Spence Bate, 1888	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: pygmy locust lobster sources: Holthuis, L. B. (1991). FAO species catalogue. Vol 13. Marine lobsters of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries known to date. FAO fisheries Synopsis. 125(13): 1–292.

French: cigale naine sources: Holthuis, L. B. (1991). FAO species catalogue. Vol 13. Marine lobsters of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries known to date. FAO fisheries Synopsis. 125(13): 1–292.

Greek: Αστακουδάκι sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Italian: cicala minore sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Spanish, Castillian: cigarra enana

Literature

basis of record	Türkay, M. (2001). Decapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 284-292
additional source	Holthuis, L. B. (1991). FAO species catalogue. Vol 13. Marine lobsters of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries known to date. FAO fisheries Synopsis. 125(13): 1–292.

Genbank

Citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Scyllarus pygmaeus (Spence Bate, 1888). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:107712