Panulirus argus

Panulirus argus
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Family: Palinuridae
Genus: Panulirus
Species:
P. argus
Binomial name
Panulirus argus
(Latreille, 1804)
Synonyms
  • Palinurus argus Latreille, 1804
  • Palinurus ricordi Guérin-Méneville, 1836
  • Palinurus americanus H. Milne-Edwards, 1837

Panulirus argus, the Caribbean spiny lobster, is a species of spiny lobster that lives on reefs and in mangrove swamps in the western Atlantic Ocean.