Linuparus

{{Short description|Genus of crustaceans}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| fossil_range = {{fossil_range|Aptian|Recent}}{{Cite journal|vauthors=Garassino, Artal, Pasini|title=New records of decapod macrurans from the Cretaceous of Catalonia and the Province of Castellon (Spain)|journal=Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum}}

| image = Linuparus trigonus (museum).jpg

| image_caption = Linuparus trigonus

| taxon = Linuparus

| authority = White, 1847

| type_species = Palinurus trigonus

| type_species_authority = von Siebold, 1824

}}

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 {{cvt|30-500|m|ft|-1}} in the Indo-Pacific, and 32 fossil species, ranging from the Early Cretaceous to the Oligocene.{{cite journal |author=Kwok Ho Tsoi, Tin-Yam Chan & Ka Hou Chu |year=2011 |title=Phylogenetic and biogeographic analysis of the spear lobsters Linuparus (Decapoda: Palinuridae), with the description of a new species |journal=Zoologischer Anzeiger |volume=250 |issue=4 |pages=302–315 |doi=10.1016/j.jcz.2011.04.007}} L. trigonus is the only extant species also known from the fossil record.