Caribbean Furry Lobster
Palinurellus gundlachi
Classification
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Palinuridae
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Furry lobsters (sometimes called coral lobsters) are small decapod crustaceans, closely related to slipper lobsters and spiny lobsters. The antennae are not as enlarged as in spiny and slipper lobsters, and the body is covered in short hairs, hence the name furry lobster. Although previously considered a family in their own right (Synaxidae Spence Bate, 1881), the furry lobsters were subsumed into the family Palinuridae in 1990.
Juan Cristóbal Gundlach (Marburg, 17 de julio de 1810-La Habana, 14 de marzo de 1896), nacido Johannes Christoph Gundlach Redberg, fue un naturalista cubano, nacido en Alemania. Biografía Gundlach nació en Marburg an der Lahn, actual estado de Hessen. Se graduó en 1837 como Doctor en Filosofía en la Universidad de Marburgo, donde su padre era profesor de matemática y física.
Distribution
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