Scyllarides herklotsii

Scyllarides herklotsii is a species of slipper lobster from the Atlantic coast West Africa. It is edible, but is not commercially fished, and is taken only by accident.^[3]

Scyllarides herklotsii
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Family:	Scyllaridae
Genus:	Scyllarides
Species:	S. herklotsii
Binomial name
Scyllarides herklotsii (Herklots, 1851) [2]
Synonyms
Scyllarus herklotsii Herklots, 1851

Scyllarides herklotsii was named in 1851 by Jan Adrian (or Janus Adrianus) Herklots in a doctoral thesis at the University of Leiden;^[4] the type material came from Butre, Ghana,^[3] and is stored at the Dutch Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum.^[5] The species is found from Senegal, where its range overlaps slightly with that of Scyllarides latus, south to Ponta do Pinda, Angola. It usually lives at depths of 5–70 metres (16–230 ft), but has been recorded from depths as great as 200 m (660 ft).^[3] It prefers sandy and rocky substrates.^[3]

Scyllarides herklotsii reaches a total length of 32 centimetres (13 in), but does not generally exceed 25 cm (9.8 in) long.^[3] It may be differentiated from S. latus by the lower, more rounded nature of the tubercles on the carapace.^[3]