Scyllarus arctus

Tags: Crustacean.

Scyllarus arctus is a species of slipper lobster which lives in the Mediterranean Sea and eastern Atlantic Ocean. It is uncommon in British and Irish waters but a number of English-language vernacular names have been applied including small European locust lobster lesser slipper lobster and broad lobster.

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binomial authority

Carl Linnaeus, 10th edition of Systema Naturae

class

Malacostraca

conservation status

LC

conservation status system

iucn3.1

family

Slipper lobster

genus

Scyllarus

kingdom

Animal

order

Decapoda

phylum

Arthropod, Crustacean

synonym

*Yalomus depressus (Rafinesque MS in Holthuis 1985), *Arctus arctus (De Haan 1849), *Arctus crenulatus (Bouvier 1905), *Arctus ursus (Dana 1852), *Astacus arctus (Pennant 1777), *Cancer (Astacus) ursus minor (Herbst 1793), *Cancer Arctus (Linnaeus 1758), *Chrysoma mediterraneum (Risso 1827), *Nisto asper (Sarato 1885), *Phyllosoma mediterraneum (Hope 1851), *Phyllosoma parthenopaeum (Costa 1840), *Phyllosoma sarniense (Lukis 1835), *Scyllarus (Arctus) crenulatus (Bouvier 1915), *Scyllarus cicada (Risso 1816), *Scyllarus tridentatus (Leach 1814)