Tags: Crustacean.
Thenus orientalis is a species of slipper lobster from the Indian and Pacific oceans.T. orientalis is known by a number of common names. The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization prefers the name flathead lobster while the official Australian name is Bay lobster. In Australia it is more widely known as the Moreton Bay bug after Moreton Bay a location in Queensland. In Singapore both the flathead lobster and true crayfish are confusingly called crayfish.