Abstract
Two adults of the rare buffalo blunthorn spiny lobster, Palinustus mossambicus Barnard, 1926 and a puerulus specimen were found while curating material from the first R/V “Dr. Fridtjof Nansen” expedition to the Western Indian Ocean. Furthermore, another puerulus-stage specimen of this spiny lobster species was found caught near Zanzibar, Tanzania. The morphological characters of the puerulus specimens indicated that they belonged to P. mossambicus, although the puerulus stage is somewhat dorsoventrally flattened, and has proportionally large pleopods. This constitutes the first puerulus description for the spiny lobsters of the genus Palinustus.References
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