Biology:Furry lobster
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| Palinurellus gundlachi | |
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| Family: | Synaxidae (now subsumed into Palinuridae)[1]
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Furry lobsters (sometimes called coral lobsters) are small decapod crustaceans, closely related to the slipper lobsters and spiny lobsters.[2] The antennae are not as enlarged as in spiny and slipper lobsters, and the body is covered in short hairs, hence the name furry lobster. Although previously considered a family in their own right (Synaxidae Spence Bate, 1881), the furry lobsters were subsumed into the family Palinuridae in 1990,[3]. Subsequent molecular phylogenetics studies have confirmed that the furry lobsters genera don't form a natural group and were both nested among the spiny lobster genera in family Palinuridae.[2] The family now includes the two furry lobster genera and ten spiny lobster genera.[1]
Taxonomy
There are two genera, with three species between them:[4]
- Palinurellus gundlachi Von Martens, 1878 – Caribbean furry lobster, found in the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic coast of South America; named for Juan Gundlach
- Palinurellus wieneckii (De Man, 1881) – mole lobster, with an Indo-Pacific distribution
- Palibythus magnificus P. J. F. Davie, 1990 – musical furry lobster, from the South Pacific (originally described from Samoa)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 WoRMS. "Synaxidae Spence Bate, 1881". http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196158 .
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ferran Palero; Keith A. Crandall; Pere Abelló; Enrique Macpherson; Marta Pascual (2009). "Phylogenetic relationships between spiny, slipper and coral lobsters (Crustacea, Decapoda, Achelata)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 50 (1): 152–162. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.10.003. PMID 18957325.
- ↑ Joel W. Martin; George E. Davis (2001). An Updated Classification of the Recent Crustacea. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. pp. 1–132. http://atiniui.nhm.org/pdfs/3839/3839.pdf. Retrieved 2010-06-04.
- ↑ "Synaxidae Bate, 1881". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=97694. Retrieved February 15, 2011.
Wikidata ☰ Q1470059 entry
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