WORLD CATALOGUE AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE RECENT STOMATOPODA compiled and distributed by Hans-Georg Müller Wissenschaftler Verlag, Laboratory for Tropical Ecosystems Research & Information Service P.O. Box 2268 D-35532 Wetzlar, Germany Stomatopod crustaceans are common members of benthic ecosystems in tropical and subtropical marine and brackish waters throughout the world. Few species are known from temperate seas. In the northern hemisphere some species were reported in Japan as far north as Hokkaido, and in the U.S.A. as far north as Massachusetts. In the eastern Atlantic area the northern limit is the sea around Ireland. The southern limits of their distribution are the south coasts of Australia and South Africa. Larval development occurs in the plankton. Stomatopods are raptorial predators, which construct burrows in level bottoms, or live in crevices and holes of hard substrates. The present compilation gives detailed information to all the 412 species known up to now. The reality: Taxonomy is a confusing subject, especially when somebody is not a taxonomic spezialist for the respective animal group and only attempts to determine species within the scope of a non-taxonomic study. New species and subspecies are described, others are synonymized, or subspecies/varieties are raised to species level. Moreover, as a matter of fact, taxonomists often have different oppinions to assign a species to a certain genus, with the result, that often different names are given for the same species. Descriptions are sometimes to poor to allow a reliable determination. Fortunately, several revisions, reviews and redescriptions are available for the Stomatopoda, though numerous short publications are scattered over many journals. The latter situation still causes several difficulties for non-taxonomic scientists, who want to determine their specimens and this was the fundamental idea for this contribution. All species of recent Stomatopoda are listed herein. At least one reference is given, which allows a determination of the respective species, or summarizes the information of older contributions. For convenience, superfamilies, families, tribes, genera and species are arranged in alphabetic order. All but two species were checked from the original descriptions or redescriptions. This compilation was also made as an aid for myself, to seize the information available for coral reef inhabiting mantis shrimps, as the needed background information for faunistic and ecological research programs undertaken, or planned in the near future. It may help ecologists to obtain 2 some information about what was made in this group in the past decades and curators of museums to manage their collection of Stomatopoda. Up-date versions will be prepared in certain intervals. There are certain arguments, that speak for publishing such a catalogue also on computer disk, instead of distributing it in the traditional way, exclusively as a printed book. From the financial point of view, the former way is considerably cheaper and allows new editions in short intervals. If you prefer to have parts of this catalogue printed, or to copy parts of the text into your own data files, you can do it yourself easily. The layout is prepared, genus and species names written in italics. Using the electronically published version, you are able to locate a certain species in the file VARO.CAT easily with the search-key of "Word Perfect 5.1". This allows convenient access to the respective species or higher taxa, even when only older names/synonyms are available to you. Users should keep in mind, that we have a considerable steady increase of information within a short time. Thus, to avoid unnecessary inflation of the volume of this catalogue, I tried to include only the most substantial information, which is (surely) subjective to some extend. For example, when a species is mentioned only in a key in a certain paper, this is not always noted in the literature-list under the respective species. When you are searching for keys to genera or species, you should check the information given for the respective families, subfamilies and genera. The inclusion of recent literature-references has been given priority, because these papers usually summarize information of older publications. The systematic part gives some additional information about the geographic distribution, vertical range, habitat, and size (total length) of the respective species. The colouration may be an important aid for determination in "difficult" genera. For this reason I mentioned those references, where the colouration, or at least pigment pattern of species is described. A complete bibliography of publications reporting on Stomatopoda is available in the file VARO.LIT on the second floppy disc. I included all references reporting on mantis shrimps that came to my until the end of November 1994. 8 1994, H.-G. Müller , for personal use only. You are allowed to take one copy of this file for security purposes and to print yourself one copy of the files VARO.CAT and VARO.LIT. The price of 79.- US-$ for this floppy disk version payable in advance inludes packing and registered airmail worldwide for individuals and institutions. With the acquisition of these files you have the possibility to obtain the update-versions for a reduced fee, which are compiled from time to time. You are informed free of charge, as soon as an update will be available (letter, postcard or Fax). However, a printed version of this catalogue is available on request as paper-bound photocopy in high quality for 124.- US-$, inclusive of registered surface-mailing. The printed versions includes also the electronically published version. Add 25 US-$, if you 3 prefer registered air-mailing for the printed version. The contents of the electronically published version and printed version are identical, except for the lack of an index in the former (because instead of this you can use the search-key to locate certain terms). Helpful suggestions for improvement of this catalogue are always welcome. ISBN 3-930311-11-9, 31 Dec. 1994. How to use this catalogue in your computer For locating a certain species with the search-key of "Word Perfect", consider the following hints: 1. Typewrite the name of the species you are looking for, but ignore the name of the author and the year of the original description. Ignore also subgenera, subspecies and varieties. With this method you should be able to locate a certain species, even when only an older name is available to you. Unfortunately, one is sometimes confronted with erronous assignments of species. To avoid such problems I suggest to use for determinations only the most recent literature. 3. For location of certain countries, use only the current name, i.e. Sri Lanka instead of Ceylon, Taiwan instead of Formosa. I found it to costly in this catalogue to summarize in each case the species known from a certain country, because many species are widely distributed in the Indo-Pacific and cannot be assigned to a certain country, when they have been caught offshore. References to major contributions on Stomatopoda 1913 Kemp, Mem. Indian Mus., 4 (1): 1-217, pls. I-X [revision of the Indo-West Pacific Stomatopoda]; 200-204 [checklist of species from America-Pacific; Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea]; 205 [list of doubtful species]. 1938 Balss, Stomatopoda, in: Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreichs, Bd. 5, Buch 6, pt. II: 1-173 [history, anatomy, development, ecology, systematics, biogeography, paleontology and bibliography]. < The most comprehensive compilation of the older information on Stomatopoda. 1955 Stephenson & McNeil, Rec. Austr. Mus., 23 (5): 239-262 [compilation of Australian species]; 255-258 [key to Australian species]. 1961 Manning, Allan Hancock Atl. Exped., Rep. 9: 3, tab. 2 [analogous species of Stomatopoda occuring on either side of the Panamá land bridge], 6 [key to W-Atlantic genera of Stomatopoda]. 1963 Manning, Bull. mar. Sci. Gulf Caribb., 13 (3): 428, tab. 1 [tabulation of the information available on spawning of Stomatopoda up to then]. 1966 Manning, Rec. Austr. Mus., 27: 84-85 [key to genera from Australia]. 1967 Holthuis, Crustaceorum Catalogus, I: 1-28 [synonymy, older references to biology, development, regional monographs and checklists]. 1967 Holthuis, Isr. J. Zool., 16: 38-42 [checklist of Red Sea Stomatopoda]. 1972 Dingle, in: Winn & Olla (eds.), Behavior of marine animals, Plenum Press: 126-156, figs. 1-2, tabs. 1-9 [agressive behaviour]. 4 1986 Caldwell, in: Mitchell & Thompson (eds.), Deception: perspectives on human and nonhuman deceit, pp. 129-143 [behaviour; deceptive use of reputation]. 1968 Tirmizi & Manning, Proc. U.S. natn. Mus., 125 (3666): 1-4 [general remarks on species from Pakistan]; 4-5 [checklist and distribution of species from the NW Indian Ocean]; 8 [key to families in NW Indian Ocean]. 1969 Manning, Stud. Trop. Oceanogr., 8, Inst. mar. Sci., Univ. Miami, 380pp. [monograph of W-Atlantic species]. 1969 Manning, Smiths. Contr. Zool., 1: 3 [checklist of species recorded from southern Mozambique and South Africa]; 3-4 [key to species from South Africa and the nearby area of southern Mozambique]. 1972 Manning, Proc. biol. Soc. Wash., 85 (24): 304-306 [key to the Stomatopoda from Peru]. 1973 Camp, Mem. Hourglass Cruises, 3 (2): 7-10 [key to species from the Gulf of Mexico] 72-86 [detailed discussion of species caught by the Hourglass Cruises]. 1974 Manning, NOAA Tech. Rep. NMFS Circ-387: 1-6 [illustrated key to the Stomatopoda of the inner continental shelf of the Northeastern U.S.A.]. 1975 Moosa, Mar. Res. Indonesia, 15: 2-3 [checklist of species known from Seribu Islands, Indonesia]. 1976 Becker, Harbor Branch Found., Inc., Tech. Rep., 9: 49pp. [illustrated key and annotated species list to the stomatopods of the Indian River Region, Florida; unpublished manuscript]. 1976 Caldwell & Dingle, Sci. Amer., 234 (1): 81-89, figs. [popular scientific account on morphology and behaviour]. 1977 Dingle, Caldwell & Manning, Phuket Mar.