Spanish Lobster

Scyllarides aequinoctialis

''Scyllarides aequinoctialis'' is a species of slipper lobster that lives in the western Atlantic Ocean from South Carolina to São Paulo State, Brazil, including the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea and Bermuda. Its common name is Spanish slipper lobster. It grows up to 30 centimetres long, with a carapace 12 cm long. ''S. aequinoctialis'' is the type species of the genus ''Scyllarides'', and the first species of slipper lobster to be described from the Western Atlantic.
Status: Least concern
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Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionArthropoda
ClassMalacostraca
OrderDecapoda
FamilyScyllaridae
GenusScyllarides
SpeciesS. aequinoctialis