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CAAB Taxon Report
Animalia (kingdom) » Arthropoda (phylum) » Malacostraca (class) » Decapoda (order) » Palinuridae (family)
| CAAB Code: | 28 820009 |
| Scientific Name and Authority: | Panulirus homarus homarus (Linnaeus, 1758) |
| CAAB category: | 28 - Crustacea - Malacostraca Malacostracans: isopods, amphipods, euphausiids and decapods (prawns, lobsters, crabs, etc.) | |
| Family: | Palinuridae (spiny lobsters) - show full list | |
| Common Name: | Scalloped Rock Lobster | |
| Common Names List: | scalloped rock lobster tropical rocklobster | |
| Taxon lists: |
Current Australian list:
 Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List:
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| Regions: |
Australia (inc. subantarctic territories) | |
| Habitat: |
Marine unspecified | |
| Parent Codes: |
28 820905
Panulirus spp. | |
| Organism Type: | a spiny lobster |
| Taxon Notes: | Only the nominate subspecies is found in Australian waters. | ||||
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| Scientific Name verified against: | Chan, T.-Y., 2010. Annotated checklist of the world's marine lobsters (Crustacea: Decapoda: Astacidea, Glypheidea, Achelata, Polychelida)., The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Vol. Suppl. 23: 153-181. |