Red reef lobster
Amazing fact
The red reef lobster has a red or orange body and white bands across its walking legs.
沖縄美ら海水族館
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The red reef lobster has a red or orange body and white bands across its walking legs.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Red reef lobster
- Scientific name
- Enoplometopus occidentalis
- Japanese name
- ショウグンエビ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Enoplometopidae
- Genus
- Enoplometopus
It lives in the seas from the Ryukyu Islands southward, across the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
How the Red reef lobster lives
It lives in places where it can hide, such as caves and cracks in rocks.
沖縄美ら海水族館Basic data
- Range
- South of the Ryukyu Islands, the Indian to Pacific oceans
- Conservation status in Japan
- Data Deficient (DD)Ministry of the Environment of Japan, Marine Red List (2017)
Where the Red reef 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
- ショウグンエビ
- 简体中文
- 西方礁螯虾
- 繁體中文
- 東方礁螯蝦
- Français
- Langoustine rouge
- Italiano
- Scampo del reef occidentale
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 — ショウグンエビChecked: 2026-11-04
- 沖縄美ら海水族館 — ショウグンエビChecked: 2026-11-07
- Ministry of the Environment of Japan, Marine Red List (2017)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.
The conservation status in Japan is the category in the Red Lists of the Ministry of the Environment of Japan, which assess the risk of extinction for wild animals in Japan.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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