WoRMS taxon details
Panulirus versicolor (Latreille, 1804)
AphiaID: 210359
AphiaID: 210359
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Macrura Reptantia (Suborder) > Achelata (Infraorder) > Palinuridae (Family) > Panulirus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Panulirus White, 1847 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Palinurus versicolor Latreille, 1804 (basionym) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Fischer, W. & G. Bianchi (Eds.) (1984). FAO Species identification sheets For Fisheries Purposes: Western Indian Ocean. FAO, Rome. [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] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | East Africa [details] East Coast of South Africa [details] Eritrea [details] FAO fishing area 51 [details] FAO fishing area 57 [details] FAO fishing area 61 [details] FAO fishing area 71 [details] FAO fishing area 77 [details] French Polynesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Indo-West Pacific [details] Japan [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mayotte Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Melanesia [details] Micronesia [details] Mozambican Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Mozambique [details] Mtwapa [details] New Caledonian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North Australia [details] Polynesia [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Réunion Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] Tanzania [details] Ungama Bay [details] Wallis and Futuna Exclusive Economic Zone [details] West Indian Ocean (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] West Pacific (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (10 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (28 nucleotides; 67 proteins) To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Decapod Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Depth range: in shallow water, from the sublittoral down to 15m depth, in coral reef areas, often on seaward edges of the reef plateau [details] Distribution: Tropical Indo-Pacific, also distributed in Australia in Kalk (1958). [details] Type locality: “Cette jolie espèce nous est arrivèe par la frègate le Naturaliste”, probably Mauritius and/or Timor [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:210359 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Chan, T. (2013). Panulirus versicolor (Latreille, 1804). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=210359 on 2013-05-21 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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