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Palinuridae

17 species · Animals

Animalia › Arthropoda › Malacostraca › Decapoda › Palinuridae

Panulirus argus (Latreille, 1804)

Panulirus argus, the Caribbean spiny lobster, is a spiny lobster species found in reefs and mangroves of the western Atlantic Ocean.

Panulirus interruptus (J.W.Randall, 1840)

Panulirus interruptus, the California spiny lobster, is a large clawless spiny lobster found along the Pacific coast of western North America.

Panulirus cygnus George, 1962

Panulirus cygnus is a spiny lobster found along Western Australia’s coast, with distinct physical features and a known life cycle.

Panulirus gracilis Streets, 1871

Panulirus gracilis, the green spiny lobster, is a crustacean that is categorized as insufficiently studied by the IUCN, and often caught under legal size.

Panulirus guttatus (Latreille, 1804)

Panulirus guttatus is a spotted spiny lobster native to reefs of the tropical western Atlantic and Caribbean.

Panulirus homarus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Panulirus homarus is a nocturnal, gregarious spiny lobster species from the Indo-West Pacific with two distinct color and morphological forms.

Panulirus inflatus (Bouvier, 1895)

Panulirus inflatus, the blue spiny lobster, is a Pacific off Mexico spiny lobster classified as Least Concern by the IUCN.

Panulirus longipes (A.Milne-Edwards, 1868)

Panulirus longipes is a spiny lobster species native to tropical and subtropical Indo-Pacific coral and rocky reefs.

Panulirus marginatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825)

Panulirus marginatus, the Hawaiian spiny lobster, is an endemic Hawaiian clawless spiny lobster that lives in shallow warm waters.

Panulirus ornatus (Fabricius, 1798)

Panulirus ornatus, the ornate rock lobster, is a large lobster with distinctive patterning and large frontal horns.

Panulirus penicillatus (Olivier, 1791)

Panulirus penicillatus is a species of spiny lobster found across tropical and subtropical Indian and Pacific shallow rocky reef waters.

Panulirus stimpsoni Holthuis, 1963

Panulirus stimpsoni, the Chinese spiny lobster, is a species endemic to China, that is also farmed in aquaculture in Vietnam.

Panulirus versicolor (Latreille, 1804)

Panulirus versicolor, a spiny lobster native to the Indian and western Pacific Oceans, is harvested for food and kept in aquariums.

Jasus edwardsii (Hutton, 1875)

Jasus edwardsii, the southern rock lobster, is a commercially important spiny lobster species found in southern Australia and New Zealand.

Jasus lalandii (H.Milne-Edwards, 1837)

Jasus lalandii is a spiny Southern African coastal crustacean that is harvested for culinary use.

Palinurus elephas (Fabricius, 1787)

Palinurus elephas is a common edible spiny lobster from the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean, caught widely as a food delicacy.

Sagmariasus verreauxi (H.Milne-Edwards, 1851)

Sagmariasus verreauxi is a spiny lobster from Australasia that may be the world's longest decapod crustacean, growing up to 60 cm.

Related Families

Ocypodidae 39 species Diogenidae 32 species Palaemonidae 30 species Cambaridae 24 species Portunidae 24 species Varunidae 18 species Paguridae 15 species Coenobitidae 13 species

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