Panulirus ornatus
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Panulirus ornatus (known by a number of common names, including tropical rock lobster,[3][4] ornate rock lobster,[5] ornate spiny lobster[2] and ornate tropical rock lobster[6]) is a large spiny lobster with 11 larval stages .[7]
Panulirus ornatus | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Family: | Palinuridae |
Genus: | Panulirus |
Species: | P. ornatus |
Binomial name | |
Panulirus ornatus (Fabricius, 1798) | |
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Panulirus ornatus has a wide geographical range in the Indo-Pacific, from the Red Sea and KwaZulu-Natal in the west to Japan and Fiji in the east.[2] These lobsters can be found at shallow depths, typically no deeper than 50 m.[citation needed] In most parts of its range, the lobster is netted or speared, while in Northeast Australia, a commercial fishery has existed since 1966 and the harvesting of the species is regulated by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority.[2][4] The species now also occurs in the Mediterranean, having invaded as a Lessepsian migrant through the Suez Canal.[8]
The species is responsible for supporting a number of fisheries in Vietnam, Papua New Guinea, the Torres Strait in Australia, and other Indo-Pacific regions.[9] With such stress on a single species for commercial purposes, countries like Australia and Indonesia have started successful aquaculture practices.