Panulirus

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Panulirus
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Panulirus interruptus
Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Family: Palinuridae
Genus: Panulirus
White, 1847
Type species
Panulirus japonicus
(Von Siebold, 1824)  [1]

Panulirus is a genus of spiny lobsters in the family Palinuridae, including those species which have long flagella on their first antennae. [1]

Contents

Species

It contains the following species: [2]

ImageNameCommon nameDistribution
Panulirus argus.jpg Panulirus argus (Latreille, 1804)Caribbean spiny lobsterwestern Atlantic Ocean
Panulirus brunneiflagellum by OpenCage.jpg Panulirus brunneiflagellum Sekiguchi & George, 2005Ogasawara Group (Bonin Islands) of southern Japan
Panulirus cygnus juv 01 gnangarra (cropped).jpg Panulirus cygnus George, 1962western rock lobster.west coast of Australia
Panulirus echinatus.jpg Panulirus echinatus Smith, 1869brown spiny lobstertropical western Atlantic Ocean and central Atlantic Islands.
Panulirus femoristriga Landaagiraavaru.JPG Panulirus femoristriga (von Martens, 1872)stripe-leg spiny lobsterIndo-Pacific.
Panulirus gracilis 33766224.jpg Panulirus gracilis Streets, 1871green spiny lobsterEastern Pacific: From Baja California Sur to the west coast of Peru and the Galapagos Islands.
Washington DC Zoo - Panulirus guttatus 1.jpg Panulirus guttatus (Latreille, 1804)spotted spiny lobster or Guinea chick lobsterwestern Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. Its range extends from Bermuda, the Bahamas, southern Florida and the West Indies, to Curaçao, Bonaire, Los Roques and Suriname
Panulirus homarus 130.jpg Panulirus homarus (Linnaeus, 1758)coasts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans
Panulirus inflatus (Bouvier, 1895)blue spiny lobsterEastern Central Pacific: Mexico.
California Spiny Lobster.jpg Panulirus interruptus (Randall, 1840)California spiny lobstereastern Pacific Ocean from Monterey Bay, California to the Gulf of Tehuantepec, Mexico.
Panulirus japonicus3.jpg Panulirus japonicus (von Siebold, 1824)Japanese spiny lobsterthe Pacific Ocean around Japan, China, and Korea.
Panulirus laevicauda (Latreille, 1817)smoothtail spiny lobsterWestern Atlantic
Panulirus longipes Reunion.JPG Panulirus longipes (A. Milne-Edwards, 1868)longlegged spiny lobstertropical Indo-Pacific
Panulirus marginatus.jpg Panulirus marginatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825)Hawaiian Islands
Panulirus meripurpuratus (Giraldes & Smyth,2016)Pernambuco state, northeastern coast of Brazil.
CSIRO ScienceImage 2518 Ornate Lobster.jpg Panulirus ornatus (Fabricius, 1798)tropical rock lobster, ornate rock lobster, ornate spiny lobster and ornate tropical rock lobsterIndo-Pacific, from the Red Sea and KwaZulu-Natal in the west to Japan and Fiji in the east
Reef4558 - Flickr - NOAA Photo Library.jpg Panulirus pascuensis Reed, 1954Easter Island spiny lobsterEaster Island and the Pitcairn Islands in the Pacific Ocean
Panulirus penicillatus Reunion.jpg 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 craytropical Indo-Pacific region
Palinuridae Panulirus polyphagus 1.jpg Panulirus polyphagus (Herbst, 1793)mud spiny lobstertropical Indo-Pacific region.
Panulirus regius De Brito Capello, 1864royal spiny lobsterEastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean
Panulirus stimpsoni Holthuis, 1963Chinese spiny lobsterIndo-West Pacific
Panulirus versicolor.jpg Panulirus versicolor (Latreille, 1804)painted rock lobster, common rock lobster, bamboo lobster, blue lobster, and blue spiny lobsterwestern Pacific and the Indian Ocean

References

  1. 1 2 Lipke B. Holthuis (1991). "Panulirus". FAO Species Catalogue, Volume 13. Marine Lobsters of the World. FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125. Food and Agriculture Organization. ISBN   92-5-103027-8. Archived from the original on 2011-06-07.
  2. Tin-Yam Chan & Michael Türkay (2010). "Panulirus White, 1847". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species . Retrieved January 11, 2012.