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Spanish Lobster
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Shrimps, prawns & lobsters

Spanish Lobster

Scyllarides aequinoctialis (Lund, 1793)

LC Least Concern

Names

EnglishSpanish Lobster
DutchBeerkreeft
SpanishLangosta pantufla
Chinese西班牙拟蝉虾
Sranan Tongokrabu (general name for the group)
Scientific nameScyllarides aequinoctialis (Lund, 1793)

About this species

Scyllarides aequinoctialis is a species of slipper lobster that lives in the western Atlantic Ocean from South Carolina to São Paulo State, Brazil, including the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, and Bermuda. Its common name is Spanish slipper lobster. It grows up to 30 centimetres (12 in) long, with a carapace 12 cm (4.7 in) long. S. aequinoctialis is the type species of the genus Scyllarides and the first species of slipper lobster to be described from the Western Atlantic.

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Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumArthropoda
ClassMalacostraca
OrderDecapoda
FamilyScyllaridae
GenusScyllarides

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