Panulirus is a genus of spiny lobsters in the family Palinuridae, including those species which have long flagella on their first antennae.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| 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]
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Species
editIt contains the following species:[2]
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Panulirus argus (Latreille, 1804) | Caribbean spiny lobster | western Atlantic Ocean |
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Panulirus brunneiflagellum Sekiguchi & George, 2005 | Ogasawara Group (Bonin Islands) of southern Japan | |
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Panulirus cygnus George, 1962 | western rock lobster. | west coast of Australia |
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Panulirus echinatus Smith, 1869 | brown spiny lobster | tropical western Atlantic Ocean and central Atlantic Islands. |
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Panulirus femoristriga (von Martens, 1872) | stripe-leg spiny lobster | Indo-Pacific. |
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Panulirus gracilis Streets, 1871 | green spiny lobster | Eastern Pacific: From Baja California Sur to the west coast of Peru and the Galapagos Islands. |
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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 |
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Panulirus homarus (Linnaeus, 1758) | coasts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans | |
| Panulirus inflatus (Bouvier, 1895) | blue spiny lobster | Eastern Central Pacific: Mexico. | |
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Panulirus interruptus (Randall, 1840) | California spiny lobster | eastern Pacific Ocean from Monterey Bay, California to the Gulf of Tehuantepec, Mexico. |
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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 | |
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Panulirus longipes (A. Milne-Edwards, 1868) | longlegged spiny lobster | tropical Indo-Pacific |
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Panulirus marginatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) | Hawaiian Islands | |
| Panulirus meripurpuratus (Giraldes & Smyth,2016) | Pernambuco state, northeastern coast of Brazil. | ||
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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 |
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Panulirus pascuensis Reed, 1954 | Easter Island spiny lobster | Easter Island and the Pitcairn Islands in the Pacific Ocean |
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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 |
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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 | |
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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
edit- ^ a b 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.
- ^ Tin-Yam Chan & Michael Türkay (2010). "Panulirus White, 1847". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved January 11, 2012.
External links
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