Palinurus (genus)
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.[2][3]
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| Genus: | Palinurus Weber, 1795 |
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Species
This is a complete list of extant species:[1][4]
- Palinurus barbarae Groeneveld, Griffiths & van Dalsen, 2006[5]
- Palinurus charlestoni Forest & Postel, 1964 – Cape Verde spiny lobster
- Palinurus delagoae Barnard, 1926 – Natal spiny lobster
- Palinurus elephas (Fabricius, 1787) – common spiny lobster
- Palinurus gilchristi Stebbing, 1900 – southern spiny lobster
- Palinurus mauritanicus Gruvel, 1911 – pink spiny lobster
References
- Lipke Holthuis (1991). FAO species catalogue Vol. 13: Marine lobsters of the world. FAO. Archived from the original on 2011-07-17.
- Victoria Jaggard (May 3, 2007). "Oldest Lobster Fossil Found in Mexico". National Geographic News.
- 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" (PDF). Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas. 23 (3): 323–333.
- "Palinurus Weber, 1795". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved January 15, 2012.
- John Yeld (September 11, 2006). "Scientists find new giant lobster species". Cape Argus. p. 3.
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