''Acanthosquilla'' is a genus of

stomatopod Mantis shrimp are carnivorous marine crustaceans of the order Stomatopoda (). Stomatopods branched off from other members of the class Malacostraca around 400 million years ago, with more than 520 extant species of mantis shrimp known. All li ...

crustacean. The American carcinologist Raymond B. Manning named and first

circumscribed In geometry, a circumscribed circle for a set of points is a circle passing through each of them. Such a circle is said to ''circumscribe'' the points or a polygon formed from them; such a polygon is said to be ''inscribed'' in the circle. * Circum ...

the genus in 1963. , the

World Register of Marine Species The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is a taxonomic database that aims to provide an authoritative and comprehensive catalogue and list of names of marine organisms. Content The content of the registry is edited and maintained by scien ...

recognizes the following eight species: * '' A. crosnieri'' * '' A. derijardi'' * '' A. manningi'' * '' A. melissae'' * '' A. multifasciata'' * '' A. multispinosa'' * '' A. tigrina'' * '' A. wilsoni''

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