Justitia mauritiana

Tags: Crustacean.

Justitia mauritiana is a species of spiny lobster sometimes called the gibbon furrow lobster. It lives in the western Indian Ocean around the Mascarene Islands (Réunion and the type locality Mauritius) and also around the Hawaiian Islands. Larvae supposed to belong to this species have been reported around the Philippines the Gilbert Islands and Tahiti.

binomial authority

Edward J. Miers

class

Malacostraca

family

Spiny lobster

genus

Justitia (genus)

kingdom

Animal

order

Decapoda

phylum

Arthropod, Crustacean

synonym

*Justitia longimana mauritiana (Holthuis 1946), *Palinurus longimanus mauritianus (Miers 1882)