Panulirus

Panulirus is a genus of spiny lobsters in the family Palinuridae, including those species which have long flagella on their first antennae.

==Species== It contains the following species: {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Image !! Name !! Common name!! Distribution |- |120px ||Panulirus argus (Latreille, 1804) ||Caribbean spiny lobster ||western Atlantic Ocean |- |120px ||Panulirus brunneiflagellum Sekiguchi & George, 2005 || || Ogasawara Group (Bonin Islands) of southern Japan |- |120px ||Panulirus cygnus George, 1962 ||western rock lobster. ||west coast of Australia |- |120px ||Panulirus echinatus Smith, 1869 || brown spiny lobster ||tropical western Atlantic Ocean and central Atlantic Islands. |- |120px ||Panulirus femoristriga (von Martens, 1872) ||stripe-leg spiny lobster ||Indo-Pacific. |- |120px ||Panulirus gracilis Streets, 1871 ||green spiny lobster ||Eastern Pacific: From Baja California Sur to the west coast of Peru and the Galapagos Islands. |- |120px ||Panulirus guttatus (Latreille, 1804) ||spotted spiny lobster or Guinea chick lobster ||western Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. Its range extends from Bermuda, the Bahamas, southern Florida and the West Indies, to Curaçao, Bonaire, Los Roques and Suriname |- |120px ||Panulirus homarus (Linnaeus, 1758) || ||coasts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans |- | ||Panulirus inflatus (Bouvier, 1895) ||blue spiny lobster ||Eastern Central Pacific: Mexico. |- |120px ||Panulirus interruptus (Randall, 1840) || California spiny lobster||eastern Pacific Ocean from Monterey Bay, California to the Gulf of Tehuantepec, Mexico. |- |120px ||Panulirus japonicus (von Siebold, 1824) ||Japanese spiny lobster ||the Pacific Ocean around Japan, China, and Korea. |- | ||Panulirus laevicauda (Latreille, 1817) ||smoothtail spiny lobster ||Western Atlantic |- |120px ||Panulirus longipes (A. Milne-Edwards, 1868) ||longlegged spiny lobster ||tropical Indo-Pacific |- |120px ||Panulirus marginatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) || ||Hawaiian Islands |- | ||Panulirus meripurpuratus (Giraldes & Smyth,2016) || ||Pernambuco state, northeastern coast of Brazil. |- |120px ||Panulirus ornatus (Fabricius, 1798) ||tropical rock lobster, ornate rock lobster, ornate spiny lobster and ornate tropical rock lobster ||Indo-Pacific, from the Red Sea and KwaZulu-Natal in the west to Japan and Fiji in the east |- |120px ||Panulirus pascuensis Reed, 1954 ||Easter Island spiny lobster || Easter Island and the Pitcairn Islands in the Pacific Ocean |- |120px ||Panulirus penicillatus (Olivier, 1791) ||variegated crayfish, tufted spiny lobster, spiny lobster, Socorro spiny lobster, red lobster, pronghorn spiny lobster, golden rock lobster, double spined rock lobster and coral cray ||tropical Indo-Pacific region |- | 120px ||Panulirus polyphagus (Herbst, 1793) ||mud spiny lobster ||tropical Indo-Pacific region. |- | ||Panulirus regius De Brito Capello, 1864 ||royal spiny lobster ||Eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean |- | ||Panulirus stimpsoni Holthuis, 1963 ||Chinese spiny lobster ||Indo-West Pacific |- |120px ||Panulirus versicolor (Latreille, 1804) ||painted rock lobster, common rock lobster, bamboo lobster, blue lobster, and blue spiny lobster ||western Pacific and the Indian Ocean |- |}