Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Hoplocarida > Order Stomatopoda > Suborder Unipeltata > Superfamily Squilloidea > Family Squillidae

Squilla Fabricius, 1787

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Squilla mantis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Literature

original description	Fabricius, J. C. (1787). Mantissa Insectorum Sistens Eorum Species Nuper Detectas Adjectis Characteribus Genericis Differentiis Specificis, Emendationibus, Observationibus. Tome I. Hafniae: Christ. Gottl. Proft. xvi + 348 pp.
basis of record	van der Land, J. (2001). Stomatopoda, 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
additional source	Manning, R.B. (1968). A revision of the family Squillidae (Crustacea, Stomatopoda), with descriptions of eight new genera. Bulletin of Marine Science. 18(1): 105–142.
additional source	Bouvier, E.L. (1915). Decapodes marcheurs (Reptantia) et Stomatopodes recueillis a l'ile Maurice par M. Paul Carie. Bull. Scient. Fr. Belg. 3 (48): 178-318.