Description
Latina: Panulirus ornatus
Date 3 September 2010
Source http://www.flickr.com/photos/yotut/4958688741/
Author YoTuT
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Panulirus_ornatus.jpg

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. Panulirus 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.
Order: Decapoda
Family: Palinuridae
Genus: Panulirus
Species: Panulirus ornatus (Fabricius, 1798)
Synonyms:
Palinurus ornatus Fabricius, 1798
Palinurus sulcatus H. Milne-Edwards, 1837
Panulirus sulcatus White, 1847
Palinurus (Senex) sulcatus Pfeffer, 1881
Senex ornatus Lanchester, 1900