Palinurus_(crustacean)

<i>Palinurus</i> (crustacean)

Palinurus (crustacean)

Genus of crustaceans

Not to be confused with Panulirus.

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]

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Species

This is a complete list of extant species:[1][4]

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References

  1. [1]
    Lipke Holthuis (1991). FAO species catalogue Vol. 13: Marine lobsters of the world. FAO. Archived from the original on 2011-07-17.
  2. [2]
    Victoria Jaggard (May 3, 2007). "Oldest Lobster Fossil Found in Mexico". National Geographic News. Archived from the original on May 5, 2007.
  3. [3]
    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.
  4. [4]
    "Palinurus Weber, 1795". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved January 15, 2012.
  5. [5]
    John Yeld (September 11, 2006). "Scientists find new giant lobster species". Cape Argus. p. 3.


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