Scalloped spiny lobster
Amazing fact
The scalloped spiny lobster is bluish purple, with reddish-brown and blue markings around its eyes.
沖縄美ら海水族館
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The scalloped spiny lobster is bluish purple, with reddish-brown and blue markings around its eyes.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Scalloped spiny lobster
- Scientific name
- Panulirus homarus
- Japanese name
- ケブカイセエビ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Palinuridae
- Genus
- Panulirus
It lives in seas from Kanagawa to Okinawa, in the Malay Archipelago, along the coasts of Australia and in the Indian Ocean.
It has a sound-making organ, and when lifted out of the water it makes a "kuku, kuku" sound.
How the Scalloped spiny lobster lives
It mostly lives in coral reef crevices or muddy places in shallow water.
沖縄美ら海水族館Basic data
- Range
- Malay Archipelago, Australian coast, Indian Ocean, and elsewhere
Where the Scalloped spiny lobster has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- ケブカイセエビ
- 简体中文
- 波纹龙虾
- 繁體中文
- 波紋龍蝦
- Français
- Langouste festonnée
- Deutsch
- Kamm-Languste
- Português (Brasil)
- Lagosta-costeira-indo-malaia
- Italiano
- Aragosta smerlata
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Lobster Pasir
- Tiếng Việt
- Tôm hùm đá
- ไทย
- กุ้งมังกรกาบ
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — ケブカイセエビChecked: 2026-11-04
- 沖縄美ら海水族館 — ケブカイセエビChecked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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