Arctides guineensis was
described in 1799, making it one of the first slipper lobsters to be described, and only the second from the Western Atlantic (after
Scyllarides aequinoctialis in 1793). The
Hawaiian species
Arctides regalis was previously considered to belong to the same species as
A. guineensis, but the two differ in the number and placement of the spines on the
carapace. In the original description of the species,
Lorenz Spengler gave the
type locality as "", probably meaning
Ghana. However,
A. guineensis is not known to have ever occurred near
Africa, and this locality is probably an error. The species was also described by
Pierre André Latreille in 1818 under the name
Scyllarus sculptus, citing a type locality of "" (
Mediterranean Sea), which is also unlikely. ==References==