NO. 9 manning: Atlantic stomatopod Crustacea 39 



Pseudosquilla ciliata (Fabricius, 1787) 

 Plate 11, figs. 1-2. 



Restricted synonymy : 

 Squilla ciliata Fabricius, 1787, p. 333. 



Pseudosquilla ciliata, Bigelow, 1902, p. 154, figs. 3-4; Holthuis, 1941, 

 p. 35; Lemos de Castro, 1955, p. 26, text-figs. 20, 21, pis. VII, 

 fig. 39, and XVI, fig. 51 ; Manning, 1959, p. 18. 



Previous records : 

 Bermuda and Bahamas to Brazil; Indo-Pacific (Manning, 1959). 



Material examined : 

 A50-39 ; Caledonia Bay, Panama; April 26, 1939; shore; 1? (USNM). 

 A57-39 ; Caledonia Bay, Panama; April 27, 1939; shore; 1 5 (AHF). 

 A15-39 ; 2 mi. off Bahia Honda, Colombia ; April 8, 1939 ; 1 S , 3 $ ? (1 

 damaged) (AHF). 



Measurements: Males, 29.2 to 65.1 mm, total length; females, 32.6 

 to 37.2 mm, total length. 



Description : Eyes cylindrical ; rostral plate wider than long, without 

 spines; carapace smooth, without carinae; raptorial dactylus armed 

 with three slender teeth; thoracic and abdominal somites strongly con- 

 vex; abdomen with posterolateral spines on fourth and fifth somites; 

 dorsal surface of telson with crest and three pairs of longitudinal cari- 

 nae; tips of submedian teeth movable; basal prolongation of uropod 

 with two spines, inner slightly longer. 



Remarks: A beautifully colored species. Background color yellow 

 brown, with two pairs of dark spots along gastric grooves on carapace; 

 a black spot on lateral margin of sixth thoracic and first abdominal 

 somites, with less prominent lateral spots on remainder of abdominal 

 somites; telson dark anteriorly, dark area divided by crest; dark spot 

 at bases of intermediate teeth of telson; spines of basal prolongation 

 and movable spines of uropod banded yellow and white; appendages 

 bright yellow, and raptorial dactylus pinkish, with yellow and white 

 spots. 



Genus Gonodactylus Latreille, 1825 



The status of this genus in the western Atlantic is not yet fully un- 

 derstood. One nominal species, G. oerstedii Hansen, 1895, occurs 

 throughout the Caribbean, from North Carolina to Brazil (Manning, 



