Scyllarides herklotsii

{{Short description|Species of slipper lobster}}

{{Speciesbox

| status = DD

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Cockcroft, A. |author2=MacDiarmid, A. |author3=Butler, M. |date=2011 |title=Scyllarides herklotsii |volume=2011 |page=e.T170028A6712946 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T170028A6712946.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}

| genus = Scyllarides

| species = herklotsii

| authority = (Herklots, 1851) {{ITIS |id=553005 |taxon=Scyllarides herklotsii (Herklots, 1851) |accessdate=May 12, 2011}}

| synonyms = Scyllarus herklotsii Herklots, 1851

}}

Scyllarides herklotsii is a species of slipper lobster from the Atlantic coast West Africa. It is edible, but is not commercially fished, and is taken only by accident.

Scyllarides herklotsii was named in 1851 by Jan Adrian (or Janus Adrianus) Herklots in a doctoral thesis at the University of Leiden;{{cite thesis |author=Janus Adrianus Herklots |title=Additamenta ad faunam carcinologicam Africae occidentalis |year=1851 |url=https://archive.org/details/specimenzoograph00herk |degree=Doctor of Philosophy |publisher=Academia Lugduno-Batava}} the type material came from Butre, Ghana, and is stored at the Dutch {{lang|nl|Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum}}.{{cite web |author=Tin-Yam Chan |author2=Charles Fransen |name-list-style=amp |year=2010 |title=Scyllarides herklotsii (Herklots, 1851) |publisher=World Register of Marine Species |url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=241309 |access-date=May 12, 2011}} The species is found from Senegal, where its range overlaps slightly with that of Scyllarides latus, south to Ponta do Pinda, Angola. It usually lives at depths of {{convert|5|-|70|m}}, but has been recorded from depths as great as {{convert|200|m|abbr=on}}. It prefers sandy and rocky substrates.

Scyllarides herklotsii reaches a total length of {{convert|32|cm}}, but does not generally exceed {{convert|25|cm|abbr=on}} long. It may be differentiated from S. latus by the lower, more rounded nature of the tubercles on the carapace.{{cite book |url=http://nlbif.eti.uva.nl/bis/lobsters.php?menuentry=soorten&id=180 |chapter=Scyllarides herklotsii |title=FAO Species Catalogue, Volume 13. Marine Lobsters of the World |author=Lipke B. Holthuis |author-link=Lipke Holthuis |publisher=Food and Agriculture Organization |year=1991 |isbn=92-5-103027-8 |series=FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125}}