Eunephrops manningi

{{Short description|Species of lobster}}

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| status = DD

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Butler, M. |author2=Chan, T.Y. |author3=Cockcroft, A. |author4=MacDiarmid, A. |author5=Wahle, R. |year=2011 |title=Eunephrops manningi |volume=2011 |page=e.T169981A6698630 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T169981A6698630.en |access-date=13 June 2024}}

| genus = Eunephrops

| species = manningi

| authority = Holthuis, 1974 {{cite journal |title=Biological Results of the University of Miami Deep-Sea Expeditions. 106. The lobsters of the superfamily Nephropidea of the Atlantic Ocean (Crustacea: Decapoda) |author=Lipke Holthuis |author-link=Lipke Holthuis |journal=Bulletin of Marine Science |volume=24 |issue=4 |year=1974 |pages=723–884 |url=http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/umrsmas/bullmar/1974/00000024/00000004/art00001}}

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Eunephrops manningi, the banded lobster,{{ITIS |id=97321 |taxon=Eunephrops manningi |accessdate=October 13, 2010}} is a species of lobster found in the West Indies. It was named in 1974 by carcinologist Lipke Holthuis after his friend and fellow carcinologist Raymond B. Manning.{{cite journal |title=Raymond B. Manning: an appreciation |author=Paul F. Clark |author2=Frederick R. Schram |author2-link=Frederick R. Schram |name-list-style=amp |journal=Journal of Crustacean Biology |volume=29 |issue=4 |pages=431–457 |year=2009 |doi=10.1651/09-3158.1|doi-access=free }}

Description

It grows to a length of {{convert|15|cm|0}} (carapace length {{convert|4|-|7|cm|disp=or|abbr=on}}) and lives at depths of {{convert|450|-|550|m}}.{{cite book |chapter-url=http://nlbif.eti.uva.nl/bis/lobsters.php?menuentry=soorten&id=86 |chapter=Eunephrops manningi |title=FAO Species Catalogue, Volume 13. Marine Lobsters of the World |author=Lipke B. Holthuis |author-link=Lipke Holthuis |publisher=Food and Agriculture Organization |year=1991 |isbn=978-92-5-103027-1 |series=FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125}} While it is large enough to be a target for commercial lobster fishing, this is precluded by its rarity, only three specimens having ever been collected. It can be distinguished from other species in the genus by the lack of post-cervical spines on the carapace, and by the presence of only transverse grooves on the body segments of the abdomen.

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