Caribbean Spiny Lobster
Panulirus argus · Crustacean
A spiny lobster of the western Atlantic, from North Carolina and Bermuda through the Caribbean to Rio de Janeiro, usually about 20 cm long but up to 60 cm, olive or brown with cream spots and antennae longer than its body. The young settle in seagrass or among mangrove roots, then move to coral reefs, where adults hide in holes by day and come out at night to eat molluscs, crabs, urchins and carrion; in autumn, off Florida and the Bahamas, files of hundreds march across the sea floor. It is the most important food export of the Bahamas: divers tickle it out of its den with a stick, and in the Bahamas and the Caribbean it is often speared.
- Danger
- Harmless
- How it is met
- In colonies, by night
- Size
- Small
- In winter
- Active in winter
Where it lives
Mangrove, Coastal Shelf, Coral Reef
Gives
Sources
Open it in Biomes — MGS Toolbox