West Indian furrow lobster

Justitia longimanus

Classification

Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Family: Palinuridae

Justitia mauritiana is a species of spiny lobster, sometimes called the gibbon furrow lobster. It lives in the western Indian Ocean around the Mascarene Islands (Réunion and the type locality, Mauritius), and also around the Hawaiian Islands. Larvae supposed to belong to this species have been reported around the Philippines, the Gilbert Islands and Tahiti.

Distribution

West Indian furrow lobster — (c) Donald Davesne, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

France · 2Cuba · 1United Kingdom · 1

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Donald Davesne, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionJustitia mauritiana, Wikipedia contributors

West Indian furrow lobster

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