Tags: Crustacean.

Sagmariasus verreauxi is a species of spiny lobster that lives around northern New Zealand the Kermadec Islands the Chatham Islands and Australia from Queensland to Tasmania. It is probably the longest decapod crustacean in the world alongside the American lobster Homarus americanus growing to lengths of up to 60 centimetres (24 in).

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binomial authority
Henri Milne-Edwards
class
Malacostraca
conservation status
LC
conservation status system
iucn3.1
family
Spiny lobster
kingdom
Animal
order
Decapoda
phylum
Arthropod, Crustacean
synonym
*Jasus huegelii (Ortmann 1891), *Jasus verreauxi (H. Milne-Edwards 1851), *Palinosytus huegelii (Stebbing 1893), *Palinurus giganteus (Kirk 1880), *Palinurus huegelii (Heller 1862), *Palinurus tumidus (Kirk 1880), *Palinurus verreauxi (H. Milne-Edwards 1851)

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