Interesting Facts
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Common Names
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Common Names in English:
Japanese Spear Lobster
Description
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Habitat
Biome: Marine .
Ecology:
This species can be found on soft and rocky substrates at a depth
range
of 30-318 m
(Holthuis 1991), where it feeds
on bivalves
, gastropods
,
scaphopods, crustaceans and foraminiferans (Wassenberg and Hill
1989).
Mature
females of this species off Queensland can
reach 59-104.3 mm (CL) with a fecundity
of 20,000-100,000 eggs
(Haddy
et al.
2004).[1].
List of Habitats
:
- 9 Marine Neritic
- 9.2 Marine Neritic - Subtidal Rock and Rocky Reefs
- 9.4 Marine Neritic - Subtidal Sandy
- 9.5 Marine Neritic - Subtidal Sandy-Mud
- 9.6 Marine Neritic - Subtidal Muddy
- 11 Marine Deep Benthic
- 11.1 Marine Deep Benthic - Continental Slope/Bathyl Zone (200-4,000m)
- 11.1.1 Hard Substrate
- 11.1.2 Soft Substrate [more info]
Taxonomy
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- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Protostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Ecdysozoa
()
- A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Superphylum:
Panarthropoda
()
- Cuvier
- Phylum:
Arthropoda
()
- Latreille, 1829
- Arthropods
- Subphylum:
Mandibulata
()
- Snodgrass, 1938
- Infraphylum:
Crustaceomorpha
()
- (Chernyshev, 1960)
- Superclass:
Crustacea
()
- Pennant, 1777
- Crustaceans
- Epiclass:
Eucrustacea
()
- Subclass:
Eumalacostraca
()
- Grobben, 1892
- Superorder:
Eucarida
()
- Calman, 1904
- Order:
Decapoda
()
- Latreille, 1802
- Decapods
- Suborder:
Pleocyemata
()
- Burkenroad, 1963
- Infraorder:
Palinura
()
- Latreille, 1802
- Superfamily:
Palinuroidea
()
- Latreille, 1802
- Family:
Palinuridae
()
- Latreille, 1802
- Genus:
Linuparus
()
- Specific name:
trigonus
- (Von Siebold, 1824)
- Scientific name: - Linuparus trigonus (Von Siebold, 1824)
- Specific name:
trigonus
- (Von Siebold, 1824)
- Genus:
Linuparus
(
- Family:
Palinuridae
(
- Superfamily:
Palinuroidea
(
- Infraorder:
Palinura
(
- Suborder:
Pleocyemata
(
- Order:
Decapoda
(
- Superorder:
Eucarida
(
- Subclass:
Eumalacostraca
(
- Epiclass:
Eucrustacea
(
- Superclass:
Crustacea
(
- Infraphylum:
Crustaceomorpha
(
- Subphylum:
Mandibulata
(
- Phylum:
Arthropoda
(
- Superphylum:
Panarthropoda
(
- Infrakingdom:
Ecdysozoa
(
- Branch:
Protostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Synonyms
Palinurus trigonus
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 19-Feb-1998
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Linuparus
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 3 species and subspecies in this genus:
L. somniosus (African Spear Lobster) · L. sordidus (Oriental Spear Lobster) · L. trigonus (Japanese Spear Lobster)
More Info
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Further Reading
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- Commercial fisheries review. [Washington]: National Marine Fisheries Service; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.] url p. 8, p. 9, p. 99.
- Crustacea. Miscellaneous. [1894-1913] url , p. 293, p. 296.
Notes
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Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 03, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 providers.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
- MacDiarmid, A., Butler, M., Cockcroft, A. & Wahle, R. 2011. Linuparus trigonus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 01February2012.
- Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 03, 2008:
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Bureau of Rural Sciences National commercial fisheries half-degree data set 2000-2002 (OBIS Australia)
- National Museum of Natural History: NMNH Invertebrate Zoology Collections
- OZCAM (Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums) Provider: Online Zoological Collections of Australian Museums
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2715007
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-552962
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13821722
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 552962
- IUCN ID: 219696
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 459844
Footnotes
- MacDiarmid, A., Butler, M., Cockcroft, A. & Wahle, R. 2011. Linuparus trigonus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 01 February 2012. [back]
