panulirus
{{Short description|Genus of spiny lobster}}
{{distinguish|Palinurus}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Lobster 300.jpg
| image_caption = Panulirus interruptus
| taxon = Panulirus
| authority = White, 1847
| type_species = Panulirus japonicus
| type_species_authority = (Von Siebold, 1824)
}}
Panulirus is a genus of spiny lobsters in the family Palinuridae, including those species which have long flagella on their first antennae.{{cite book |url=http://nlbif.eti.uva.nl/bis/lobsters.php?selected=beschrijving&menuentry=soorten&id=47 |chapter=Panulirus |title=FAO Species Catalogue, Volume 13. Marine Lobsters of the World |author=Lipke B. Holthuis |publisher=Food and Agriculture Organization |year=1991 |isbn=92-5-103027-8 |series=FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125 |author-link=Lipke Holthuis |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607224302/http://nlbif.eti.uva.nl/bis/lobsters.php?selected=beschrijving&menuentry=soorten&id=47 |archive-date=2011-06-07 }}
Species
It contains the following species:{{cite WoRMS |author=Tin-Yam Chan & Michael Türkay |year=2010 |title=Panulirus White, 1847 |id=107060 |access-date=January 11, 2012}}
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| Image | Name | Common name | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| 120px | Panulirus argus (Latreille, 1804) | Caribbean spiny lobster | western Atlantic Ocean |
| 120px | Panulirus brunneiflagellum Sekiguchi & George, 2005 | Ogasawara Group (Bonin Islands) of southern Japan | |
| 120px | Panulirus cygnus George, 1962 | western rock lobster. | west coast of Australia |
| 120px | Panulirus echinatus Smith, 1869 | brown spiny lobster | tropical western Atlantic Ocean and central Atlantic Islands. |
| 120px | Panulirus femoristriga (von Martens, 1872) | stripe-leg spiny lobster | Indo-Pacific. |
| 120px | Panulirus gracilis Streets, 1871 | green spiny lobster | Eastern Pacific: From Baja California Sur to the west coast of Peru and the Galapagos Islands. |
| 120px | Panulirus guttatus (Latreille, 1804) | spotted spiny lobster or Guinea chick lobster | western 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 |
| 120px | Panulirus homarus (Linnaeus, 1758) | coasts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans | |
| Panulirus inflatus (Bouvier, 1895) | blue spiny lobster | Eastern Central Pacific: Mexico. | |
| 120px | Panulirus interruptus (Randall, 1840) | California spiny lobster | eastern Pacific Ocean from Monterey Bay, California to the Gulf of Tehuantepec, Mexico. |
| 120px | Panulirus japonicus (von Siebold, 1824) | Japanese spiny lobster | the Pacific Ocean around Japan, China, and Korea. |
| Panulirus laevicauda (Latreille, 1817) | smoothtail spiny lobster | Western Atlantic | |
| 120px | Panulirus longipes (A. Milne-Edwards, 1868) | longlegged spiny lobster | tropical Indo-Pacific |
| 120px | Panulirus marginatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) | Hawaiian Islands | |
| Panulirus meripurpuratus (Giraldes & Smyth,2016) | Pernambuco state, northeastern coast of Brazil. | ||
| 120px | Panulirus ornatus (Fabricius, 1798) | tropical rock lobster, ornate rock lobster, ornate spiny lobster and ornate tropical rock lobster | Indo-Pacific, from the Red Sea and KwaZulu-Natal in the west to Japan and Fiji in the east |
| 120px | Panulirus pascuensis Reed, 1954 | Easter Island spiny lobster | Easter Island and the Pitcairn Islands in the Pacific Ocean |
| 120px | 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 cray | tropical Indo-Pacific region |
| 120px | Panulirus polyphagus (Herbst, 1793) | mud spiny lobster | tropical Indo-Pacific region. |
| Panulirus regius De Brito Capello, 1864 | royal spiny lobster | Eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean | |
| Panulirus stimpsoni Holthuis, 1963 | Chinese spiny lobster | Indo-West Pacific | |
| 120px | Panulirus versicolor (Latreille, 1804) | painted rock lobster, common rock lobster, bamboo lobster, blue lobster, and blue spiny lobster | western Pacific and the Indian Ocean |
References
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External links
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Category:Taxa named by Adam White (zoologist)
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