Photo: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Description
- 📏 up to 40 cm
- 🌊 lagoons, drop-offs and coral areas
The painted spiny lobster is recognisable by its green-blue body and its legs striped with white and black. Like other spiny lobsters, it has no big claws and comes out at night to feed. It hides by day in coral cavities.
Did you know?
Its bright colours earned it its English name « painted spiny lobster ».
Source: Biology of the species
The Tahitian name of this species is not yet confirmed in our sources.
Tahitian names: sources being verified. French name: Langouste ornée.
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