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Palinurus elephas (Fabricius, 1787) 
AphiaID: 107703

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Macrura Reptantia (Suborder) > Achelata (Infraorder) > Palinuridae (Family) > Palinurus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Palinurus Weber, 1795
Synonymised
taxa
  Astacus elephas Fabricius, 1787 (basionym)
Sources  basis of record: Türkay, M. (2001). Decapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 284-292 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Holthuis, L.B. 1991. FAO species catalogue. Vol 13. Marine lobsters of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries known to date. FAO fisheries Synopsis. 125 (13):292 p. [details]

additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details]

additional source: d'Udekem d'Acoz, C. (1999). Inventaire et distribution des crustacés décapodes de l'Atlantique nord-oriental, de la Méditerranée et des eaux continentales adjacentes au nord de 25°N [Inventory and distribution of the decapod crustaceans from the northeastern Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the adjacent continental waters north of 25°N]. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 40. Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle: Paris, France. ISBN 2-86515-114-10. X, 383 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Albanian astako  [details]
Albanian lemçja  [details]
Arabic azeffane  [details]
Arabic bakhouche  [details]
Arabic jarradh el bahr  [details]
Arabic jrad bharr  [details]
Arabic sid  [details]
Basque otarrain  [details]
Catalan llagosta  [details]
Danish langust  [details]
Dutch hoornkreeft  [details]
Dutch langoest  [details]
English common spiny lobster  [details]
English crawfish  [details]
English European spiny lobster  [details]
English red crab  [details]
English sea crayfish  [details]
English spiny lobster  [details]
French langouste  [details]
French langouste commune  [details]
French langouste europeenne  [details]
French langouste rouge  [details]
German Europaische Languste  [details]
German gemeine Languste  [details]
German Languste  [details]
Italian aligusta  [details]
Italian aragosta  [details]
Italian aragosta mediterranea  [details]
Italian arigusta  [details]
Ligurian lengusta  [details]
Maltese agusta  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) astajus  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) astakos  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Αστακός  [details]
Norwegian langust  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål langust  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk langust  [details]
Portuguese lagosta  [details]
Spanish langosta  [details]
Spanish langosta común  [details]
Swedish langust  [details]
Turkish beudic  [details]
Turkish bocek  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Adriatic Sea [details]
Azores [details]
Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
British Isles [details]
East Atlantic [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Faial Island [details]
FAO fishing area 27 [details]
FAO fishing area 34 [details]
FAO fishing area 37 [details]
Galicia [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Gascogne [details]
Ionian sea [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Isle of Wight [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
Moroccan Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North Africa [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Sandown Bay [details]
South Coast of England [details]
South Norway (not certain[details]
Southern Bight [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
West Coast of England [details]
West Mediterranean [details]
Links BIOTIC
Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life (46 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (117 nucleotides; 74 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Decapod Collection
To ITIS
Note  Type locality: “Americae meridionalis Insulis”, likely wrong and should be Italy [details]
Images 
Palinurus elephas
Palinurus elephas
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Palinurus elephas
Palinurus elephas
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Palinurus elephas
Palinurus elephas
added on 2012-01-23 - author: Eneman, Eddy
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:107703
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Türkay, Michael
  
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  Citation: Türkay, M. (2013). Palinurus elephas (Fabricius, 1787). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=107703 on 2013-05-20
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