Palinurus (crustacean) explained

Palinurus (crustacean) should not be confused with Panulirus.

Palinurus is a genus of spiny lobsters in the family Palinuridae, native to the eastern Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea and western Indian Ocean. A 110-million-year-old fossil, recognisable as a member of the genus Palinurus, was discovered in a quarry in El Espinal in Mexico's Chiapas state in 1995 and named P. palaciosi.[1] [2]

Species

This is a complete list of extant species:[3]

Image Scientific name Common Name Distribution
Palinurus barbarae Groeneveld, Griffiths & van Dalsen, 2006[4] south of Madagascar
Palinurus charlestoni Forest & Postel, 1964 Cape Verde spiny lobsterCape Verde
Palinurus delagoae Barnard, 1926 Natal spiny lobster
Palinurus elephas (Fabricius, 1787) common spiny lobstereastern Atlantic Ocean, from southern Norway to Morocco and the Azores, and in the Mediterranean Sea
Palinurus gilchristi Stebbing, 1900 southern spiny lobsterSouth Africa and Madagascar.
Palinurus mauritanicus Gruvel, 1911 pink spiny lobstereastern Atlantic Ocean and the western Mediterranean Sea.

Notes and References

  1. News: Oldest Lobster Fossil Found in Mexico . https://web.archive.org/web/20070505025257/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/05/070503-oldest-lobster.html . dead . May 5, 2007 . . May 3, 2007 . Victoria Jaggard.
  2. Francisco J. Vega . Pedro García-Barrera . María del Carmen Perrilliat . Marco A. Coutiño . Ricardo Mariño-Pérez . 2006 . El Espinal, a new plattenkalk facies locality from the Lower Cretaceous Sierra Madre Formation, Chiapas, southeastern Mexico . . 23 . 3 . 323–333 .
  3. Book: FAO species catalogue Vol. 13: Marine lobsters of the world. . Lipke Holthuis . 1991 . . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110717030511/http://ip30.eti.uva.nl/bis/lobsters.php?selected=beschrijving&menuentry=soorten&id=45 . 2011-07-17 . Lipke Holthuis .
  4. News: Scientists find new giant lobster species . John Yeld . September 11, 2006 . . 3.