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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Palinuridae

Lobster

WoRMS 106794ITIS 97646GBIF 4535key worms:106794
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2026-08-05: itis_id 97646 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Joanna Wolfe · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Panulirus interruptus

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Palinuridae
Photo · Dan Schofield · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Spiny lobsters, also known as langustas, langoustes, or rock lobsters are marine decapod crustaceans belonging to the family Palinuridae.W CalCOFI holds 502 observations of it in 2 datasets between 1951 and 2021, as invert, across 2 taxa under it.R

502
observations
2,044
records
185
sampling events
1951–2021
years
2
datasets
1
species under it
invert
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Ichthyoplankton 185 obs · 185 events · 2007–2021 · invert
    name used: Palinuridae Lobster · code 9490

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:106794%22