Tags: Crustacean.
Palinurus barbarae is a species of spiny lobster described in 2006 which was found by fishermen working the waters above the Walters Shoals a series of submerged mountains 700 kilometres (430 mi) south of Madagascar. The animal weighs 4 kilograms (8.8 lb) and reaches up to 40 centimetres (16 in) long excluding the long antennae and is similar to P. delagoae found off South Africa from which it may be differentiated by a number of characters including the larger number of spines.