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 20 cm
- 🌊 lagoons, sandy bottoms and coral rubble
The sculptured mitten lobster is a flattened cousin of the spiny lobster: its antennae form broad shovel-shaped plates, and its body is massive and covered with tubercles. Nocturnal, it hides in reef holes by day and comes out at night to eat molluscs. It can produce a sound by rubbing its antennae against its shell.
Did you know?
Slipper lobsters such as this one are nicknamed « sea cicadas » in French because of the small creak they can make with their antennae.
Source: Naturalists' observations
The Tahitian name of this species is not yet confirmed in our sources.
Tahitian names: sources being verified. French name: Cigale de mer.
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