WHATSTHATFISH
Crustaceans

Voigtmann's Reef Lobster

Hoplometopus holthuisi

Also known as: Dwarf Reef Lobster, Tropical Reef Lobster, Enoplometopus voigtmanni

Adult
@blogie · Rocky Beach Dive Site, Bgy. Kamanga, Maasim, Sarangani Province, Philippines · October 20111 / 1
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Overview

Found singly, during the day, hiding in caves and crevices, over shallow, rocky reef slopes.
They feed nocturnally on crustaceans, detritus, fish, and invertebrates.
Widespread Tropical Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean, Indo-Pacific

These are some of the smallest lobsters.

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.

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How to identify

Pattern
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Habitat & where to find it

  • Range · Indo-Pacific, Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean
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Found singly, during the day, hiding in caves and crevices, over shallow, rocky reef slopes.

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    Taxonomy

    1. kingdomAnimalia
    2. phylumArthropoda
    3. classMalacostraca
    4. orderDecapoda
    5. familyEnoplometopidae
    6. genusHoplometopus
    7. speciesHoplometopus holthuisi (Gordon, 1968)

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    More in the family

    Decapoda