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DreamScape
03/26/2002, 04:58 AM
Erugosquilla grahami. Apparantly grows to 40 or 60 cm... would be fun to have one, eh?
DreamScape
03/26/2002, 05:17 AM
bah my bad 20 to 40 cm... :D
Gonodactylus
03/26/2002, 12:33 PM
Someone is pulling your dactyls. Erugosquilla grahami does not exceed 20 cm and the largest record I can find is an 18 cm female. It occurs off the eastern coast of Australia as far north as Taiwan. It is a common, typical mud-living, nocturnal spearing squillid that used to be known as Oratosquilla woodmasoni.

Roy
DreamScape
03/26/2002, 02:38 PM
:( only 20??

:D ah well... i can still dream of the monster mantis;) :rolleyes:

can't trust everything on the web i suppose... there was this site that said peacock mantis grew to 53 cm - and THAT is something i'm not likely to believe!:D
Gonodactylus
03/26/2002, 03:12 PM
I'm afraid 40 cm is the biggest you are going to find. Lysiosquillina maculata, Harpiosquilla, and Bathysquilla all push this limit, but I have never seen a stomatopod over 40 cm.

I suspect that it is physically impossible for an Odontodactylus scyllarus to reach 53 cm. At that size, the raptorial appendages would probably self-destruct if it struck. I'm afraid O. scyllarus just don't get much over 18 cm.

Roy