Palinurus (genus)

Palinurus
Temporal range: Albian–Recent
Palinurus elephas
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Achelata
Family: Palinuridae
Genus: Palinurus
Weber, 1795
Type species
Astacus elephas
Fabricius, 1787 [1]
Species

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Palinurus is a genus of spiny lobsters in the family Palinuridae. 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]

Species

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

References

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