Panulirus interruptus

Panulirus interruptus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Achelata
Main Page Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Crustacea Classis: Malacostraca Subclassis: Eumalacostraca Superordo: Eucarida Ordo: Decapoda Subordo: Pleocyemata Infraordo: Achelata

Familia: Palinuridae
Genus: Panulirus
Species: Panulirus interruptus

Name

Panulirus interruptus (Randall, 1840)

Syntypes: ANSP, No. 4188 (condition poor to reasonable).

Type locality: "from Upper California, where it is used as food by the natives".

Synonyms

• Palinurus interruptus Randall, 1840

References

• Randall, J.W. 1840: Catalogue of the Crustacea brought by Thomas Nuttall and J.K. Townsend, from the West Coast of North America and the Sandwich Islands, with descriptions of such species as are apparently new, among which are included several species of different localities, previously existing in the collection of the Academy. Journal Academy Natural Sciences Philadelphia, 8(1): 106-147, pls. 3-7.
• Williams, A.B. 1986: Lobsters - Identification, world distribution, and U.S. trade. Marine Fisheries Review, 48(2):1-36, figs 1-80.

Vernacular names

English: California spiny lobster
Français: Langouste mexicaine