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The California sheephead is a major predator of the California spiny lobster. California spiny lobsters are nocturnal, [3] hiding in crevices during the day, with only the tips of their long antennae showing, as a means of avoiding predators. Towards dawn, the spiny lobsters form aggregations, which they maintain until dusk. [8]
Many spiny lobsters produce rasping sounds to repel predators by rubbing the "plectrum" at the base of the spiny lobster's antennae against a "file". The noise is produced by frictional vibrations – sticking and slipping, similar to rubber materials sliding against hard surfaces. [23]
Panoploscelis (commonly referred to as spiny lobster katydids or giant lobster crickets) is a genus of very large insects belonging to the true katydid tribe Eucocconotini, which is a subfamily of the Tettigoniidae.
Palinurus elephas is a common species of spiny lobster, found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, from southern Norway to Morocco and the Azores, [7] and in the Mediterranean Sea, except its eastern extremes. [3] It lives on rocky exposed coasts below the intertidal zone, [2] mainly at depths of 20 to 70 metres (66 to 230 ft).
Jasus edwardsii, the southern rock lobster, red rock lobster, or spiny rock lobster, is a species of spiny lobster found throughout coastal waters of southern Australia and New Zealand including the Chatham Islands. It is commonly called crayfish in Australia and New Zealand and kōura in Māori. [3]
Spiny lobster sport season is on July 24-25, 2024, the last consecutive Wednesday and Thursday each July. DeSantis added Sunday, July 14, exclusively for Florida residents. DeSantis added Sunday ...
Panulirus marginatus, also known as the Hawaiian spiny lobster, [2] banded spiny lobster, [3] or ula in Hawaiian, [4] is a species of spiny lobster in the family Palinuridae which is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands. It is the subject of extensive commercial and recreational fisheries. [2]
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 .