Species Jasus edwardsii (Hutton, 1875)
Red Rock Lobster (Fao), Southern Rock Lobster (Australia)
- Palinurus edwardsii Hutton, F. 1875. Descriptions of two new species of Crustaceans from New Zealand: Sesarma pentagona and Palinurus edwardsii. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 7: 279-280 [279].
Type data:
Syntype(s) MONZ (apparently now lost, see Holthuis, L.B. 1991. FAO Species Catalogue. Vol. 13. Marine lobsters of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries known to date. FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125, 13: i–viii, 1–292 [97]), 'Otago Heads' near Dunedin, South Island, New Zealand. - Jasus novaehollandiae Holthuis, L.B. 1963. Preliminary descriptions of some new species of Palinuridae (Crustacea Decapoda, Macrura Reptantia). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie Wetenschappen 66C: 54-60 [56].
Type data:
Holotype RMNH D10642 ♂, off the coast of NSW near Maroubra, Sydney.
Paratype(s) RMNH D14509 2 specimens, SE Australia, Bass Strait; AM E734; AM E1086; AM E1087; AM E1088; AM E1322; USNM.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Booth, J.D., Street, R.J. & Smith, P.J. 1990. Systematic status of the rock lobsters Jasus edwardsi from New Zealand and Jasus novaehollandiae from Australia. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 24(2): 239-249 [239]
Distribution
States
New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
New Zealand.
IMCRA
Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)
Ecological Descriptors
Coral reef, littoral, rock bottom, sublittoral.
Extra Ecological Information
Found on rocky onshore and offshore reefs with sufficient hiding places, nocturnal, mating and egg-laying occurs from May to July after female moults, depth 0 to 200 m.
General References
Davie, P. 2002. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Phyllocarida, Hoplocarida, Eucarida (Part 1). In Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 19.3A. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia xii 551 pp. [424] (in literature prior to 1963 the species was usually indicated as Jasus lalandii as it was not distinguished from the Cape Rock Lobster)
Hale, H.M. 1927. The Crustaceans of South Australia. Eumalacostraca. Adelaide : Government Printer Vol. 1 201 pp., 202 figs. [65] (natural history)
History of changes
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