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Jasus lalandii, the Cape rock lobster or West Coast rock lobster or South African rock lobster, is a species of spiny lobster found off the coast of Southern Africa. It is not known whom the specific epithet lalandii commemorates, although it may the French naturalist and taxonomer Pierre Antoine Delalande .
Spiny lobsters are found in almost all warm seas, including the Caribbean and the Mediterranean Sea, but are particularly common in Australasia, where they are referred to commonly as crayfish or sea crayfish (Jasus edwardsii), [16] and in South Africa (Jasus lalandii). Spiny lobsters tend to live in crevices of rocks and coral reefs, only ...
Palinurus gilchristi, the southern spiny lobster, is a species of spiny lobster within the family Palinuridae. [1]It is distributed in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean near the coasts of South Africa from Cape Province to Port Alfred, where it lives in rocky areas as shelter at depths of 55 to 360 meters.
In South Africa, P. homarus was only the subject of small-scale fisheries until 1969, when a company was formed to exploit it. [3] It is also the most important species of spiny lobster to the lobster fisheries of Tamil Nadu and Kerala , although in East Africa, it is one of the less common species; the annual catch off Somalia is around 120 t. [3]
Jasus is a genus of spiny lobsters which live in the oceans of the Southern Hemisphere. [2] They have two distinct "horns" projecting from the front of the carapace, but lack the stridulating organs present in almost all other genera of spiny lobsters. [2] Like all spiny lobsters, they lack claws, and have long stout antennae which are quite ...
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.
Traditionally, Tier 1 participants keep one additional spiny lobster per day during the Lobster Mini-Season as a prize. However, DeSantis announced that, this year, Tier 1 participants will get to ...
Like other spiny lobsters, it has five pairs of pereiopods (walking legs), but no chelae (claws). [3] In life, P. charlestoni is red to violet, but quite variable in colour. [3] The carapace is red with white spots, while the abdomen is red with sharp white stripes on either side of the midline. [4]