Species Linuparus trigonus (Von Siebold, 1824)
Barking Crayfish (Australia), Japanese Spear Lobster (Fao), Red Spear Lobster (Aust)
- Palinurus trigonus Siebold, G.T. de [P.F.von] 1824. De historiae naaturalis in Japonia statu, nec non de augmento emolumentisque in decursu perscrutationum exspectandis Disserttio, cui accedunt Spicilegia Faune Japonicae. Batavia. 16 pp. [15].
Type data:
Lectotype RMNH D5611 1 dry specimen, Omura Bay, Nagasaki, Kyushu, Japan.
Paralectotype(s) RMNH D5610 3 dry specimens, Japan; BMNH; USNM.Subsequent designation references:
Holthuis, L.B. 1966. On spiny lobsters of the genera Palinurellus, Linuparus and Puerulus (Crustacea Decapoda, Palinuridae). Proceedings of the Symposium on Crustacea, Ernakalum 1: 260-278 [265].
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
West Pacific (Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Philippines).
IMCRA
Northwest Shelf Province (27), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Ecological Descriptors
Benthic, continental shelf, continental slope, sublittoral.
Extra Ecological Information
Bottom sandy-mud, sometimes with shells, depth 30–414 m.
General References
Holthuis, L.B. 1946. Biological results of the Snellius Expedition XIV. The Decapoda Macrura of the Snellius Expedition. I. The Stenopodidae, Nephropsidae, Scyllaridae and Palinuridae. Temminckia 7: 1-177 11 pls [121] (full synonymy)
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 [111, 114]
Wassenberg, T.J. &Hill, B.J. 1989. Diets of four decapod crustaceans (Linupurus trigonus, Metanephrops andamanicus, M. australiensis and M. boschmai) from the continental shelf around Australia. Marine Biology, Berlin 103: 161-167
Williams, A.B. 1986. Lobsters—Identification, world distribution, and the U.S. trade. Marine Fisheries Review 48(2): 1-36 figs 1-80 (identification)
History of changes
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