Enoplometopus antillensis Lütken, 1865

Poupin, Joseph, 2024, A documented checklist of the Crustacea (Stomatopoda, Decapoda) of the southern Guianas (Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil Amapá), European Journal of Taxonomy 954 (1), pp. 1-197 : 147

8. Enoplometopus antillensis Lütken, 1865

– Accepted as Hoplometopus antillensis (Lütken, 1865) . Reported from French Guiana by GBIF (2023) at https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/3846918257, from TAXREF based on IUCN Red List and map (see https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/184993 /8341204#geographic-range, with geographic range including Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana). This colorful reef lobster lives in clear coral reef waters. Its presence in sGuianas, with turbid waters and limited coral structures, is doubtful. The WA distribution of this species is typically disjunct, from Bermuda and East coast of Florida to Venezuela (Isla de Margarita), interrupted in sGuianas, and again present in the south, off Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil (Rocas atoll, Gaeta et al. 2015; Trindade Island, Tavares et al. 2017). Until the exact origin of the sGuianas records is identified, it seems best to remove this lobster from the region.