Panulirus
Panulirus is a genus of spiny lobsters in the family Palinuridae, including those species which have long flagella on their first antennae.
Species
It contains the following species:| Image | Name | Common name | Distribution |
| Panulirus argus | Caribbean spiny lobster | western Atlantic Ocean | |
| Panulirus brunneiflagellum Sekiguchi & George, 2005 | Ogasawara Group of southern Japan | ||
| Panulirus cygnus George, 1962 | western rock lobster. | west coast of Australia | |
| Panulirus echinatus Smith, 1869 | brown spiny lobster | tropical western Atlantic Ocean and central Atlantic Islands. | |
| Panulirus femoristriga | stripe-leg spiny lobster | Indo-Pacific. | |
| Panulirus gracilis Streets, 1871 | green spiny lobster | Eastern Pacific: From Baja California Sur to the west coast of Peru and the Galapagos Islands. | |
| Panulirus guttatus | spotted spiny lobster or Guinea chick lobster | western Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. Its range extends from Bermuda, the Bahamas, southern Florida and the West Indies, to Curaçao, Bonaire, Los Roques and Suriname | |
| Panulirus homarus | coasts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans | ||
| Panulirus inflatus | blue spiny lobster | Eastern Central Pacific: Mexico. | |
| Panulirus interruptus | California spiny lobster | eastern Pacific Ocean from Monterey Bay, California to the Gulf of Tehuantepec, Mexico. | |
| Panulirus japonicus | Japanese spiny lobster | the Pacific Ocean around Japan, China, and Korea. | |
| Panulirus laevicauda | smoothtail spiny lobster | Western Atlantic | |
| Panulirus longipes | longlegged spiny lobster | tropical Indo-Pacific | |
| Panulirus marginatus | Hawaiian Islands | ||
| Panulirus meripurpuratus | Pernambuco state, northeastern coast of Brazil. | ||
| Panulirus ornatus | tropical rock lobster, ornate rock lobster, ornate spiny lobster and ornate tropical rock lobster | Indo-Pacific, from the Red Sea and KwaZulu-Natal in the west to Japan and Fiji in the east | |
| Panulirus pascuensis Reed, 1954 | Easter Island spiny lobster | Easter Island and the Pitcairn Islands in the Pacific Ocean | |
| Panulirus penicillatus | variegated crayfish, tufted spiny lobster, spiny lobster, Socorro spiny lobster, red lobster, pronghorn spiny lobster, golden rock lobster, double spined rock lobster and coral cray | tropical Indo-Pacific region | |
| Panulirus polyphagus | mud spiny lobster | tropical Indo-Pacific region. | |
| Panulirus regius De Brito Capello, 1864 | royal spiny lobster | Eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean | |
| Panulirus stimpsoni Holthuis, 1963 | Chinese spiny lobster | Indo-West Pacific | |
| Panulirus versicolor | painted rock lobster, common rock lobster, bamboo lobster, blue lobster, and blue spiny lobster | western Pacific and the Indian Ocean |