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Palinurus barbarae is a species of spiny lobster described in 2006, which was found by fisherman working the waters above the Walters Shoals, a series of submerged mountains 700 km south of Madagascar [1][2]. The lobster weighs 4 kg and reaches up to 40 cm long excluding the long antennae, and is similar to P. delagoae, found off South Africa, from which it may be differentiated by a number of characters including the larger number of spines [3]. There are fears that the species, which lives in an area outside any country's jurisdiction may now be exploited [1] or that it has already been brought near to extinction by overfishing [2].
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