Species Panulirus homarus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Scalloped Spiny Lobster (Fao)
- Cancer homarus Linnaeus, C. 1758. Cancer. pp. 625-634 in Linnaeus, C. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp. [633].
Type data:
Lectotype specimen figured by <0943> [pl. 1 fig. A], Amboina [Ambon], Moluccas, Indonesia.Subsequent designation references:
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 [140]. - Palinurus dasypus Milne Edwards, H. 1837. Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, comprenant l'anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces animaux. Paris : Libraire Encyclopedique de Roret Vol. 2 532 pp., Atlas 32 pp., 42 pls. [300].
Type data:
Syntype(s) MNHP (no longer extant, not located in 1989), India. - Panulirus burgeri De Haan, W. 1841. Crustacea. 1-243 pls A-J, L-Q, 1-55, circ. tab. 2 in Von Siebold, P.F. (ed.). Fauna Japonica sive Descriptio Animalium, quae in Itinere per Japoniam, Jussu et Auspiciis Superiorum, qui Summum in India Batava Imperium Tenent, Suscepto, Annis 1823–1830 Collegit, Notis, Observationibus et Adumbrationibus Illustravit. Leiden : Lugundi-Batavorum. [published from 1833–1850] [159 pls 43, 44 fig. 1].
Type data:
Holotype RMNH D21129 dry ♂, Japan, probably Nagasaki area.Type locality references:
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. - Panulirus burgeri megasculpta Pesta, O. 1915. Bemerkungen zu einigen Langusten (Palinuridae) und ihrer geographischen Verbreitung. Sitzungsberichte der Mathematischen-Physikalischen Klasse der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München 124/I: 3-12 2 figs 1 pl. [7].
Type data:
Syntype(s) BMNH 5♂ 2♀, Qishn, South Yemen. - Panulirus homarus rubellus Berry, P.F. 1974. A revision of the Panulirus homarus group of spiny lobsters (Decapoda, Palinuridae). Crustaceana 27(1): 31-42 2 pls [41].
Type data:
Syntype(s) SAM, South Africa [Natal and Zululand], S Mozambique and SE Madagascar; RMNH D29843 ♂ ♀, Durban, Natal, South Africa; BMNH 1928.12.1.326, South Africa [Natal and Zululand], S Mozambique and SE Madagascar; BMNH 1925.8.18.86–87, South Africa [Natal and Zululand], S Mozambique and SE Madagascar.
Taxonomic Decision for 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 [128, 139]
Distribution
States
Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
Indo-west Pacific Oceans.
IMCRA
Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Ecological Descriptors
Littoral, rock bottom, sublittoral.
Extra Ecological Information
Often found in the surf zone, sometimes in somewhat turbid water, depth 1–90 m, usually 1 to 5 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 [128, 134] (full synonymy)
History of changes
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