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CAAB Taxon Report
Animalia (kingdom) » Arthropoda (phylum) » Malacostraca (class) » Decapoda (order) » Palinuridae (family)
| CAAB Code: | 28 820015 |
| Scientific Name and Authority: | Panulirus femoristriga (Von Martens, 1872) |
| CAAB category: | 28 - Crustacea - Malacostraca Malacostracans: isopods, amphipods, euphausiids and decapods (prawns, lobsters, crabs, etc.) | |
| Family: | Palinuridae (spiny lobsters) - show full list | |
| Common Name: | [a spiny lobster] | |
| Recent Synonyms: | Panulirus albiflagellum | |
| Taxon lists: |
Current Australian list:
 Species not on current Australian list, but occuring in adjacent region: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: | |
| Regions: |
Australia (inc. subantarctic territories) Tropical Indo-West Pacific Indian Ocean (non coastal) | |
| Habitat: |
Marine unspecified | |
| Parent Codes: |
28 820905
Panulirus spp. | |
| Organism Type: | a spiny lobster |
| Taxon Notes: | Yet to be confirmed in Australian continental waters, but suspected to be present (Davie, 2000). Definitely present on Christmas Island. Previous Australian records of Panulirus longipes femoristriga are actually P. longipes bispinosus. | ||||
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| Record source: | Davie, P.J.F., 2002. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Phyllocarida, Hoplocarida, Eucarida (Part 1). In: Wells, A. Houston, W.W.K., Editors, Zoological Catalogue of Australia., 19.3A. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne 551pp. |
| Scientific Name verified against: | Ng, P.K.L. Naruse, T., 2014. The lobsters of Christmas Island and Cocos (Keeling) Islands, with new records of Palinurellus wieneckii (De Man, 1881) and Enoplometopus voigtmanni Türkay, 1989 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palinuridae, Scyllaridae, Enoplometopidae)., Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, Vol. Suppl. 30: 305-312. |