Definition of spiny lobster Spiny lobster
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| spiny lobster - large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters | ||
| langouste, rock lobster, crawfish, crayfish, sea crawfish | ||
| lobster any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae | ||
| genus palinurus, palinurus type genus of the family Palinuridae | ||
| spiny lobster - warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California | ||
| langouste, rock lobster, crayfish | ||
| shellfish meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean) | ||
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- spiny lobster (Noun)
A crustacean superficially resembling a true lobster, belonging to the Palinuridae family.
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spiny lobster
A marine crustacean of the Palinuridae family, large and edible, having a spiny carapace and no pincers.
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Spiny lobsters, also known as rock lobsters are a family (Palinuridae) of about 45 species of crustaceans, in the Decapoda Reptantia. Spiny lobsters are also called "crayfish", "sea crayfish" or "crawfish".
Although they superficially resemble true lobsters in terms of overall shape, and that they also have a hard carapace and exoskeleton, the two groups are not closely related. Spiny lobsters can be easily distinguished from true lobsters by their very long, thick, spiny antennae, and by their complete lack of claws ("chelae"); true lobsters have much smaller antennae and claws on the first three pairs of legs, with the first being particularly enlarged. Like true lobsters, however, spiny lobsters are edible and are an economically significant food source; they are the biggest food export of the Bahamas .
Spiny lobsters are found in almost all warm seas, including the Caribbean and the Mediterranean Sea, but are particularly common in Australasia, where they are referred to commonly as crayfish or sea crayfish ("Jasus novaehollandiae" and "Jasus edwardsii"), and South Africa ("Jasus lalandii"). A new species, "Palinurus barbarae" was described in 2006.
The largest spiny lobster on record was over 1 m (3 ft) long and weighed over 11.8 kg (26 lb).
Spiny lobsters tend to live in crevices of rocks and coral reefs, only occasionally venturing out at night to seek snails, clams, crabs, sea urchins or carrion to eat. Sometimes, they migrate "en masse", in long files of lobsters acr
