Tags: Crustacean.

Panulirus ornatus (known by a number of common names including tropical rock lobster ornate rock lobster ornate spiny lobster and ornate tropical rock lobster) is a large edible spiny lobster with 11 larval stages that has not been successfully bred in captivity.P. 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.

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binomial authority
Johan Christian Fabricius
class
Malacostraca
conservation status
LC
conservation status system
iucn3.1
family
Spiny lobster
genus
Panulirus
kingdom
Animal
order
Decapoda
phylum
Arthropod, Crustacean
synonym
*Palinurus (Senex) sulcatus (Pfeffer 1881), *Palinurus ornatus (Fabricius 1798), *Palinurus sulcatus (H. Milne-Edwards 1837), *Panulirus sulcatus (White 1847), *Senex ornatus (Lanchester 1900)

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