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Royal spanish lobster
Arctides regalis
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 246223, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Royal spanish lobster
- Scientific
- Arctides regalis
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Lobsters
- Maximum size
- Up to about 6 cm (carapace length)
- Depth and habitat
- Sea floor (benthic), recorded from 1 to 60 m
- IUCN status
- LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2009
Description
A slipper lobster with a flat, armoured, sculptured shell, often red to orange with pale markings, and broad flat plates in place of long antennae. It hides in caves and crevices by day and forages on the reef at night.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=1); SeaLifeBase Maldives checklist.
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Arctides-regalis.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=246223
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Regal_slipper_lobster.jpg
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.