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Spiny lobsters, also known as langustas, langouste, or rock lobsters, are a family (Palinuridae) of about 60 species of achelate crustaceans, in the Decapoda Reptantia. Spiny lobsters are also, especially in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, and the Bahamas, called crayfish , sea crayfish , or crawfish ("kreef" in South Africa ...
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.
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]
The California spiny lobster is one of the largest spiny lobster species, [4] and grows up to 60 centimeters (24 in) long, but does not usually exceed 30 cm (12 in). [3] Males can weigh up to 7.4 kilograms (16 lb)., [ 4 ] with the record being a 16 lbs., 1 oz. male caught off Catalina island in 1968.
mud spiny lobster: tropical Indo-Pacific region. Panulirus regius De Brito Capello, 1864: royal spiny lobster: Eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean Panulirus stimpsoni Holthuis, 1963: Chinese spiny lobster: Indo-West Pacific Panulirus versicolor (Latreille, 1804) painted rock lobster, common rock lobster, bamboo lobster, blue lobster, and ...
Panulirus homarus is a species of spiny lobster that lives along the coasts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It lives in shallow water, and feeds on the brown mussel Perna perna . It typically grows to a length of 20–25 cm (7.9–9.8 in).
She believes diet may play some role in the expression of a lobster's shell layers, as depending on what lobsters eat, different proteins could be absorbed that allow different shell colors to ...
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).