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Ornate spiny lobsters become active at night.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Ornate spiny lobster
- Scientific name
- Panulirus ornatus
- Japanese name
- ニシキエビ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Palinuridae
- Genus
- Panulirus
It lives on shallow coral reefs from the Kii Peninsula and Kyushu to Southeast Asia, the Red Sea, South Africa and Polynesia.
How the Ornate spiny lobster lives
By day they hide in cracks in rocks or between loose stones.
新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海Basic data
- Range
- Kii Peninsula, Kyushu, Red Sea, South Africa, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Polynesia, and elsewhere
Where the Ornate 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
- ニシキエビ
- 简体中文
- 锦绣龙虾
- 繁體中文
- 錦繡龍蝦
- Français
- Langouste-porcelaine
- Deutsch
- Schmuck-Languste
- Português (Brasil)
- Lagosta-pintada-ornata
- Italiano
- Aragosta ornata
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Lobster Mutiara
- Tiếng Việt
- Tôm hùm bông
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 — ニシキエビChecked: 2026-11-04
- 新潟市水族館 マリンピア日本海 — ニシキエビChecked: 2026-11-07
- 海遊館 — ニシキエビ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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