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Scalloped spiny lobster
Panulirus homarus
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 210355, checked 2026-10-31).
Possibly present in the Maldives
- English
- Scalloped spiny lobster
- Scientific
- Panulirus homarus
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Lobsters
- Maximum size
- Up to about 31 cm (total length)
- Depth and habitat
- Sea floor (benthic), recorded from 1 to 90 m
- IUCN status
- LC · Least ConcernLeast Concern (LC), assessed 2009
- Record in the Maldives
- Possibly present
Description
The scalloped spiny lobster is a spiny lobster with a greenish to brown shell covered in small pale spots and a scalloped edge to the tail segments. It lives in shallow, rocky and surf-swept places, sheltering in crevices by day and feeding at night.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: literature records via OBIS. Only one kind of evidence was found, so it is listed as possibly present.
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Panulirus-homarus.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=210355
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Panulirus_homarus_130.jpg
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.