Furry lobster
Family of crustaceans
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Furry lobsters (sometimes called coral lobsters) are small decapod crustaceans, closely related to slipper lobsters and spiny lobsters.[1] The antennae are not as enlarged as in spiny and slipper lobsters, and the body is covered in short hairs, hence the name furry lobster. Although previously considered a family in their own right (Synaxidae Spence Bate, 1881), the furry lobsters were subsumed into the family Palinuridae in 1990.[2] Subsequent molecular phylogenetics studies have confirmed that the furry lobsters genera don't form a natural group and were both nested among the spiny lobster genera in family Palinuridae.[1] That family now includes the two furry lobster genera and ten spiny lobster genera.[3]
| Furry lobster | |
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| Palinurellus gundlachi | |
Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Achelata |
| Family: | Palinuridae |
| Groups included | |
Taxonomy
There are two genera, with three species between them:[4]
- Phyllamphion elegans Reinhardt, 1849 – mole lobster, with an Indo-Pacific distribution
- Phyllamphion gundlachi (Von Martens, 1878) – Caribbean furry lobster, found in the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic coast of South America; named for Juan Gundlach
- Palibythus magnificus P. J. F. Davie, 1990 – musical furry lobster, from the South Pacific (originally described from Samoa)