Scyllarides aequinoctialis

{{Short description|Species of crustacean}}

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| image = Slipper lobster.jpg

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| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Butler, M. |author2=Cockcroft, A. |author3=MacDiarmid, A. |date=2011 |title=Scyllarides aequinoctialis |volume=2011 |page=e.T170075A6726084 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T170075A6726084.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}

| genus = Scyllarides

| species = aequinoctialis

| authority = (Lund, 1793) {{ITIS |id=97676 |taxon=Scyllarides aequinoctialis (Lund, 1793) |accessdate=August 22, 2011}}

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• Scyllarus aequinoctialis Lund, 1793
• Pseudibacus gerstaeckeri Pfeffer, 1881

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Scyllarides aequinoctialis is a species of slipper lobster that lives in the western Atlantic Ocean from South Carolina to São Paulo State, Brazil, including the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, and Bermuda.{{cite book |url=http://www.fao.org/docrep/009/t0411e/t0411e00.htm |chapter-url=ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/009/t0411e/t0411e31.pdf |chapter=Scyllarides aequinoctialis |title=FAO Species Catalogue, Volume 13. Marine Lobsters of the World |author=Lipke B. Holthuis |author-link=Lipke Holthuis |location=Rome |publisher=Food and Agriculture Organization |year=1991 |isbn=92-5-103027-8 |series=FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125 |pages=183–184}} Its common name is Spanish slipper lobster. It grows up to {{convert|30|cm|0}} long, with a carapace {{convert|12|cm|abbr=on}} long. S. aequinoctialis is the type species of the genus Scyllarides and the first species of slipper lobster to be described from the Western Atlantic.{{cite journal |author=Lipke B. Holthuis |author-link=Lipke Holthuis |year=2002 |title=The Indo-Pacific scyllarine lobsters (Crustacea, Decapoda, Scyllaridae) |journal=Zoosystema |volume=24 |issue=3 |pages=499–683 |url=http://www.mnhn.fr/publication/zoosyst/z02n3a1a.pdf |format=PDF}}