''Acanthosquilla'' is a genus of
stomatopod
Mantis shrimp, or stomatopods, are carnivorous marine crustaceans of the order Stomatopoda (). Stomatopods branched off from other members of the class Malacostraca around 340 million years ago. Mantis shrimp typically grow to around in length ...
crustacean. The American carcinologist
Raymond B. Manning named and first
circumscribed
In geometry, the circumscribed circle or circumcircle of a polygon is a circle that passes through all the vertices of the polygon. The center of this circle is called the circumcenter and its radius is called the circumradius.
Not every po ...
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 list of names of marine organisms.
Content
The content of the registry is edited and maintained by scientific speciali ...
recognizes the following eight species:
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A. crosnieri''
* ''
A. derijardi''
* ''
A. manningi''
* ''
A. melissae''
* ''
A. multifasciata''
* ''
A. multispinosa''
* ''
A. tigrina''
* ''
A. wilsoni''
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Stomatopoda
Malacostraca genera
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