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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Panulirus interruptus

California spiny lobster

WoRMS 382898ITIS 97650key worms:382898
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2026-08-05: itis_id 97650 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Joanna Wolfe · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Panulirus interruptus
California spiny lobster60 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · sealifebase

California spiny lobster (Palinurus interruptus). Picture taken by Magnus Kjærgaard in La Jolla, California.
Photo · No machine-readable author provided. DrKjaergaard assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 2.5 · commons

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

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.

  • Phyllosoma (Lobster Larvae) 1,859 obs · 1,859 events · 1951–2009 · phyllosoma
    name used: Panulirus interruptus · code panulirus_interruptus

How big is it
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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.

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 Phyllosoma (Lobster Larvae) table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/calcofi_phyllosoma.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:382898%22