Furry lobster

Furry lobsters
	Palinurellus gundlachi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Infraorder:	Achelata
Family:	Synaxidae (now subsumed into Palinuridae)
Genera and species
	Palinurellus Palinurellus gundlachi; Palinurellus wieneckii; ; Palibythus Palibythus magnificus; ;

Furry lobsters (sometimes called coral lobsters) are small decapod crustaceans, closely related to the slipper lobsters and spiny lobsters.^[2] The antennae are not as enlarged as in spiny and slipper lobsters, and the body is covered in short hairs, hence the name furry lobster. Although previously considered a family in their own right (Synaxidae Spence Bate, 1881), the furry lobsters were subsumed into the family Palinuridae in 1990,^[3]. Subsequent molecular phylogenetics studies have confirmed that the furry lobsters genera don't form a natural group and were both nested among the spiny lobster genera in family Palinuridae.^[2] The family now includes the two furry lobster genera and ten spiny lobster genera.^[1]

Taxonomy

There are two genera, with three species between them:^[4]

Palinurellus gundlachi Von Martens, 1878 – Caribbean furry lobster, found in the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic coast of South America; named for Juan Gundlach
Palinurellus wieneckii (De Man, 1881) – mole lobster, with an Indo-Pacific distribution
Palibythus magnificus P. J. F. Davie, 1990 – musical furry lobster, from the South Pacific (originally described from Samoa)

References

1 2 WoRMS. "Synaxidae Spence Bate, 1881". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
1 2 Ferran Palero; Keith A. Crandall; Pere Abelló; Enrique Macpherson; Marta Pascual (2009). "Phylogenetic relationships between spiny, slipper and coral lobsters (Crustacea, Decapoda, Achelata)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 50 (1): 152–162. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.10.003. PMID 18957325.
↑ Joel W. Martin; George E. Davis (2001). An Updated Classification of the Recent Crustacea (PDF). Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. pp. 1–132. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-05-12. Retrieved 2010-06-04.
↑ "Synaxidae Bate, 1881". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved February 15, 2011.

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[WoRMS-1] 1 2 WoRMS. "Synaxidae Spence Bate, 1881". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 26 December 2022.

[Palero-2] 1 2 Ferran Palero; Keith A. Crandall; Pere Abelló; Enrique Macpherson; Marta Pascual (2009). "Phylogenetic relationships between spiny, slipper and coral lobsters (Crustacea, Decapoda, Achelata)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 50 (1): 152–162. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.10.003. PMID 18957325.

[M&D-3] Joel W. Martin; George E. Davis (2001). An Updated Classification of the Recent Crustacea (PDF). Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. pp. 1–132. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-05-12. Retrieved 2010-06-04.

[4] "Synaxidae Bate, 1881". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved February 15, 2011.

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