Subspecies Panulirus longipes bispinosus Borradaile, 1900
Coral Crayfish
- Panulirus bispinosus Borradaile, L.A. 1900. On the Stomatopoda and Macrura brought by Dr Willey from the South Seas. pp. 395-428 in Willey, A. (ed.). Zoological Results based on Material from New Britain, New Guinea, Loyalty Islands and Elsewhere, collected during the Years 1895, 1896, and 1897. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. [418].
Type data:
Holotype UMZC ♂, Sandal Bay, Lifu, Loyalty Islands.
Distribution
States
New South Wales, Queensland
Extra Distribution Information
West Pacific Ocean (Japan south through Micronesia, Papua New Guinea, New Hebrides, Fiji, Tonga, Cook Islands, and New Caledonia).
IMCRA
Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)
Ecological Descriptors
Coral reef, rock reef, subtidal.
Extra Ecological Information
Clear or slightly turbid water, nocturnal, depth 1 to 18 m.
General References
Chan, T.Y. & Chu, K.H. 1996. On the different forms of Panulirus longipes femoristriga (von Martens, 1872) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palinuridae), with description of a new species. Journal of Natural History 30: 367-387 [369] (description and figures, under the misidentification of P. longipes femoristriga)
Healey, A. & Yaldwyn, J. 1970. Australian Crustaceans in Colour. Sydney : A.H. & A.W. Reed 112 pp. [55] (colour photograph (as P. longipes))
History of changes
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