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The fossil record of spiny lobsters has been extended by the discovery in 1995 of a 110-million-year-old fossil near El Espiñal in Chiapas, Mexico. Workers from the National Autonomous University of Mexico have named the fossil Palinurus palaecosi , and report that it is closest to members of the genus Palinurus currently living off the coasts ...
Palinurus is a genus of spiny lobsters in the family Palinuridae, native to the eastern Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea and western Indian Ocean. A 110-million-year-old fossil, recognisable as a member of the genus Palinurus, was discovered in a quarry in El Espinal in Mexico's Chiapas state in 1995 and named P. palaciosi.
Linuparus, the spear lobsters, is a genus of medium-sized to large spiny lobsters in the family Palinuridae.It contains four extant species found at depths of 30–500 m (100–1,640 ft) in the Indo-Pacific, and 32 fossil species, ranging from the Early Cretaceous to the Oligocene. [2]
Achelata contains the spiny lobsters ... The two fossil families contain a single genus each; [1] Tricarina is known from a single Cretaceous fossil, [7] ...
Jasus is a genus of spiny lobsters which live in the oceans of the Southern Hemisphere. [2] They have two distinct "horns" projecting from the front of the carapace, but lack the stridulating organs present in almost all other genera of spiny lobsters. [2] Like all spiny lobsters, they lack claws, and have long stout antennae which are quite ...
Polychelida had traditionally been included in the infraorder Palinura, alongside the spiny lobsters and slipper lobsters (now in the infraorder Achelata). [1] [2] In 1995, Gerhard Scholtz and Stefan Richter of the Freie Universität Berlin carried out a phylogenetic study of the "Reptantia", and concluded that "Palinura" was paraphyletic.
The phyllosoma larva of spiny lobsters has a long planktonic life before metamorphosing into the puerulus stage, which is the transitional stage from planktonic to a benthic existence. [3] [4] Despite the importance of larval survival to predict recruitment, not much is known about the biology of phyllosoma larvae. [5]
Palinurus charlestoni is a species of spiny lobster which is endemic to the waters of Cape Verde.It grows to a total length of 50 cm (20 in) and can be distinguished from other Atlantic species in the genus by the pattern of horizontal bands on its legs.