Description
English: Jasus verreauxi The eastern rock lobster is the largest species of lobster in the world, reaching up to 7 kg when fully grown. Few if any individuals reach this size, however, as the species has been heavily fished for many years. The commercial catch has fallen from around 400 t/yr in the 1980s to around 150 t/yr over the last decade.
Date 25 September 2013, 12:47:39
Source https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnwturnbull/9929812044/
Author John Turnbull
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The green rock lobster or eastern rock lobster, Sagmariasus verreauxi, is a species of spiny lobster that lives around northern New Zealand, the Kermadec Islands the Chatham Islands and Australia from Queensland to Tasmania. It is probably the longest decapod crustacean in the world, alongside the American lobster Homarus americanus, growing to lengths of up to 60 cm.
Order: Decapoda
Family: Palinuridae
Genus: Sagmariasus
Species: Sagmariasus verreauxi (H. Milne-Edwards, 1851)
Synonyms:
Palinurus verreauxi H. Milne-Edwards, 1851
Jasus verreauxi (H. Milne-Edwards, 1851)
Palinurus huegelii Heller, 1862
Palinurus tumidus Kirk, 1880
Palinurus giganteus Kirk, 1880
Jasus huegelii Ortmann, 1891
Palinosytus huegelii Stebbing, 1893