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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 ...
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.
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).
Most people recognize an American lobster on sight but do not know that the spiny lobster found in the southern Atlantic waters and the Pacific are not lobsters. They are saltwater crayfish!
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 ...
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.
Like other spiny lobsters, it has five pairs of pereiopods (walking legs), but no chelae (claws). [3] In life, P. charlestoni is red to violet, but quite variable in colour. [3] The carapace is red with white spots, while the abdomen is red with sharp white stripes on either side of the midline. [4]
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