Palinurus (genus)
| Palinurus Temporal range: Albian–Recent | |
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| Palinurus elephas | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Infraorder: | Achelata |
| Family: | Palinuridae |
| Genus: | Palinurus Weber, 1795 |
| Type species | |
| Astacus elephas Fabricius, 1787 [1] | |
| Species | |
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Palinurus is a genus of spiny lobsters in the family Palinuridae. 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]
Species
This is a complete list of extant species:[1][4]
- Palinurus barbarae Groeneveld, Griffiths & van Dalsen, 2006[5]
- Palinurus charlestoni Forest & Postel, 1964 – Cape Verde spiny lobster
- Palinurus delagoae Barnard, 1926 – Natal spiny lobster
- Palinurus elephas (Fabricius, 1787) – common spiny lobster
- Palinurus gilchristi Stebbing, 1900 – southern spiny lobster
- Palinurus mauritanicus Gruvel, 1911 – pink spiny lobster
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lipke Holthuis (1991). FAO species catalogue Vol. 13: Marine lobsters of the world. FAO.
- ↑ Victoria Jaggard (May 3, 2007). "Oldest Lobster Fossil Found in Mexico". National Geographic News.
- ↑ 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.