species: Chorisquilla hystrix in Lizard Island (Gaia Guide)
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Chorisquilla hystrix


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©Roy Caldwell: from Lizard Island (lab photo).

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Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class Malacostraca
Order Stomatopoda
Family Protosquillidae
Genus Chorisquilla
Species Chorisquilla hystrix

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Distinguishing features

Distinguishing features still need to be specified.

Size

  • From 1 cm to 2.8 cm (Length)

Depth range

  • From 5 m to 65 m

Synonyms

Distribution


©Atlas of Living Australia: Australian distribution: Chorisquilla hystrix

Distribution and habitat preferences

They live in burrows in rock, coralline alage and coral rubble. (Roy's List)

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References

  • How, M.J., M.L. Porter, A.N. Radford, K.D. Feller, S.E. Temple, R.L. Caldwell, N.J. Marshall, T.W. Cronin and N.W. Roberts (2014). Out of the blue: the evolution of horizontally polarized signals in Haptosquilla (Crustacea, Stomatopoda, Protosquillidae), Journal of Experimental Biology, 217: 3425-3431. LIRS catalog number 1827.
  • Porter, M.L., Y. Zhang, S. Desai, R.L. Caldwell and T.W. Cronin (2010). Evolution of anatomical and physiological specialization in the compound eyes of stomatopod crustaceans. Journal of Experimental Biology, 213: 3473-3486. LIRS catalog number 1736.