Palinurus is a genus of spiny lobsters in the family Palinuridae, native to the eastern Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea and western Indian Ocean. A 110-million-year-old fossil, recognisable as a member of the genus Palinurus, was discovered in a quarry in El Espinal in Mexico's Chiapas state in 1995 and named P. palaciosi.[2][3]
| Palinurus Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Family: | Palinuridae |
| Genus: | Palinurus Weber, 1795 |
| Type species | |
| Astacus elephas | |
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Species edit
This is a complete list of extant species:[1][4]
| Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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| Palinurus barbarae Groeneveld, Griffiths & van Dalsen, 2006[5] | south of Madagascar | ||
| Palinurus charlestoni Forest & Postel, 1964 | Cape Verde spiny lobster | Cape Verde | |
| Palinurus delagoae Barnard, 1926 | Natal spiny lobster | central Mozambique and southern Madagascar to the Eastern Cape, South Africa. | |
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Palinurus elephas (Fabricius, 1787) | common spiny lobster | eastern Atlantic Ocean, from southern Norway to Morocco and the Azores, and in the Mediterranean Sea |
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Palinurus gilchristi Stebbing, 1900 | southern spiny lobster | South Africa and Madagascar. |
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Palinurus mauritanicus Gruvel, 1911 | pink spiny lobster | eastern Atlantic Ocean and the western Mediterranean Sea. |
References edit
- ^ a b Lipke Holthuis (1991). FAO species catalogue Vol. 13: Marine lobsters of the world. FAO. Archived from the original on 2011-07-17.
- ^ Victoria Jaggard (May 3, 2007). "Oldest Lobster Fossil Found in Mexico". National Geographic News. Archived from the original on May 5, 2007.
- ^ Francisco J. Vega; Pedro García-Barrera; María del Carmen Perrilliat; Marco A. Coutiño; Ricardo Mariño-Pérez (2006). "El Espinal, a new plattenkalk facies locality from the Lower Cretaceous Sierra Madre Formation, Chiapas, southeastern Mexico" (PDF). Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas. 23 (3): 323–333.
- ^ "Palinurus Weber, 1795". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved January 15, 2012.
- ^ John Yeld (September 11, 2006). "Scientists find new giant lobster species". Cape Argus. p. 3.
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