Tags: Crustacean.
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 Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum.