Scyllarides herklotsii
Introduction '''''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.''S. herklotsii'' was named in 1851 by Jan Adrian (or Janus Adrianus) Herklots in a doctoral thesis at the University of Leiden; the type material came from Butre, Ghana, and is stored at the Dutch ''''. 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 , but has been recorded from depths as great as . It prefers sandy and rocky substrates. ''Scyllarides herklotsii'' reaches a total length of , but does not generally exceed  long. It may be differentiated from ''S. latus'' by the lower, more rounded nature of the tubercles on the carapace.
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