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Painted Spiny Lobster

Panulirus versicolor (Latreille 1804)

Depth range

provided by World Register of Marine Species
in shallow water, from the sublittoral down to 15m depth, in coral reef areas, often on seaward edges of the reef plateau

Reference

Holthuis, L. B. (1991). FAO species catalogue. Vol 13. Marine lobsters of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries known to date. FAO fisheries Synopsis. 125(13): 1–292.

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