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Jasus edwardsii, the southern rock lobster, red rock lobster, or spiny rock lobster, is a species of spiny lobster found throughout coastal waters of southern Australia and New Zealand including the Chatham Islands. It is commonly called crayfish in Australia and New Zealand and kōura in Māori. [3]
It was recently discovered that spiny lobsters can also navigate by detecting the Earth's magnetic field. [18] They keep together by contact, using their long antennae. [19] Potential predators may be deterred from eating spiny lobsters by a loud screech made by the antennae of the spiny lobsters rubbing against a smooth part of the exoskeleton ...
The coat of arms of Tristan da Cunha features St Paul rock lobsters as supporters. Jasus paulensis, also commonly known as the St Paul rock lobster, is a species of spiny lobster found in the waters around Saint Paul Island in the southern Indian Ocean and around Tristan da Cunha in the southern Atlantic Ocean.
Easter Island spiny lobster: Easter Island and the Pitcairn Islands in the Pacific Ocean Panulirus penicillatus (Olivier, 1791) variegated crayfish, tufted spiny lobster, spiny lobster, Socorro spiny lobster, red lobster, pronghorn spiny lobster, golden rock lobster, double spined rock lobster and coral cray: tropical Indo-Pacific region
Jasus lalandii, the Cape rock lobster or West Coast rock lobster or South African rock lobster, is a species of spiny lobster found off the coast of Southern Africa. It is not known whom the specific epithet lalandii commemorates, although it may the French naturalist and taxonomer Pierre Antoine Delalande .
Panulirus ornatus (known by a number of common names, including tropical rock lobster, [3] [4] ornate rock lobster, [5] ornate spiny lobster [2] and ornate tropical rock lobster [6]) is a large spiny lobster with 11 larval stages.
Palinurus elephas is a common species of spiny lobster, found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, from southern Norway to Morocco and the Azores, [7] and in the Mediterranean Sea, except its eastern extremes. [3] It lives on rocky exposed coasts below the intertidal zone, [2] mainly at depths of 20 to 70 metres (66 to 230 ft).
Panulirus penicillatus is a species of spiny lobster that lives on shallow rocky and coral reefs in the tropical Indo-Pacific region. Common names for this spiny lobster include variegated crayfish, tufted spiny lobster, spiny lobster, Socorro spiny lobster, red lobster, pronghorn spiny lobster, golden rock lobster, double spined rock lobster and coral cray. [2]