Taxonomy of Shellfish

Unit 8 - Taxonomy of lobsters

8.4. Key to the genus Panulirus

• First pair of legs not enlarged with no trace of a pincer without cross bands.
• Carapace without a scale-like sculpture.
• Tail variously coloured, smooth or with at most 2 transverse grooves.
• Two distinct, widely separated tooth-like frontal horns, between which the anterior margin of the carapace visible.
• Antennal flagella, although large and firm, quite flexible.
• Flagella of an antennule long, whip like, longer than peduncle of antennule.