Blunt Slipper Lobster

Scyllarides squammosus

Also known as: Blunt-headed Slipper Lobster, Marine Lobster, Scaly Slipper Lobster, Sea Crawfish, Shovel-nosed Lobster

ALSO KNOWN AS

Blunt-headed Slipper Lobster
Marine Lobster
Scaly Slipper Lobster
Sea Crawfish
Shovel-nosed Lobster

LCLeast ConcernIUCN Red List, 2011

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Blunt Slipper Lobster adult, photographed at Townsville Aquarium, Australia — @fishx6 · Townsville Aquarium, Australia · November 20201 / 2

Overview

Found singly or in small pods, hiding in crevices and under rocks during the day, foraging for food at night, over coral, rubble, sand, and stone bottoms, of reefs.

Lobsters live in caves and crevices during the day, often several together, coming out at night to feed.
Sometimes caught in the torches of divers where they scuttle off back into the dark.
They do not have true claws, the soft and flexible tail is used for swimming rapidly backwards, for short distances to get away from danger.
Spiny lobsters are caught in baited lobster pots for gourmet dining.

How to identify

COLOURS

Pattern: blotches
Behaviour: hides nocturnal shelters in caves shelters in crevices solitary

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Habitat & where to find it

Range · Indo-West Pacific
Country only · 2

LIVES IN

Found singly or in small pods, hiding in crevices and under rocks during the day, foraging for food at night, over coral, rubble, sand, and stone bottoms, of reefs.

RANGE