Photo: Hugues Evano (IFREMER, Délégation océan Indien (DOI), Département Ressources Biologiques et Environnement (RBE), F-97420 Le Port, France) · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Description
- 📏 up to 40 cm
- 🌊 reef crest and outer slopes, in crevices
The pronghorn spiny lobster (also called rock lobster) has no big claws, unlike the clawed lobster: it relies on long spiny antennae. Nocturnal, it comes out at night to hunt small molluscs and crustaceans, then hides by day in the crevices of the reef, sometimes with others. It frequents the zone beaten by waves, on the crest of the reef.
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Like many lobsters, it is fished mainly at night, when it comes out of its hiding place; local fishing rules (minimum sizes, egg-bearing females) must be respected.
Source: Habits of the reef lobster
The Tahitian name of this species is not yet confirmed in our sources.
Tahitian names: sources being verified. French name: Langouste tropicale.
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