Metanephrops binghami

{{Short description|Species of lobster}}

{{for|the Caribbean spiny lobster species|Panulirus argus}}

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| image = Metanephrops binghami.png

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Butler, M. |author2=Chan, T.Y. |author3=Cockcroft, A. |author4=MacDiarmid, A. |author5=Wahle, R. |date=2011 |title=Metanephrops binghami |volume=2011 |page=e.T170021A6709910 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-1.RLTS.T170021A6709910.en |access-date=20 November 2021}}

| genus = Metanephrops

| species = binghami

| authority = (Boone, 1927)

| synonyms = *Nephrops binghami Boone, 1927

| synonyms_ref = {{cite web | url = http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=382848 | title = Metanephrops binghami (Boone, 1927) | access-date = 24 June 2017 | publisher = World Register of Marine Species | author = T. Chan | year = 2009}}

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Metanephrops binghami, the Caribbean lobster or Caribbean lobsterette, is a lobster that inhabits the western Atlantic region: from the Bahamas and southern Florida to French Guiana, including the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea.{{cite book |url=http://nlbif.eti.uva.nl/bis/lobsters.php?menuentry=soorten&id=94 |chapter=Metanephrops binghami |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=92-5-103027-8 |series=FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125}}