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Ornate Spiny Lobster
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Ornate Spiny Lobster

Panulirus ornatus

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.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 108365.