Panulirus interruptus
California spiny lobster
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2026-08-05: itis_id 97650 via WoRMS external link
The California spiny lobster is a species of spiny lobster found in the eastern Pacific Ocean from Monterey Bay, California, to the Gulf of Tehuantepec, Mexico. It typically grows to a length of 30 cm (12 in) and is a reddish-brown color with stripes along its legs, and has a pair of enlarged antennae but no claws.W CalCOFI holds 317 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2009, as phyllosoma.R
- 317
- observations
- 1,859
- records
- 1,859
- sampling events
- 1951–2009
- years
- 1
- datasets
- phyllosoma
- life stages
- 60 cm
- max length
Observed in 1 dataseti
One row per dataset, and beside it 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.
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One row per dataset, and beside it 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.
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name used: Panulirus interruptus · code
panulirus_interruptus
Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:382898")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'worms:382898'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.21, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it 60 cm max
Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.
Life stages phyllosoma
- Phyllosoma (Lobster Larvae) phyllosoma
The stages each dataset records for it, from the release's obs_bio.life_stage. Their lengths are under How big is it.
Lineage 13 ranks · Biota to Panulirus
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length
- Silhouette · Joanna Wolfe · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Panulirus interruptus · source
- Photo · No machine-readable author provided. DrKjaergaard assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 2.5 · commons · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “California spiny lobster” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1352432223
- Length · sealifebase
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.21
Cite the release, v2026.10.21; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗