(H. Milne Edwards,1837)

Diagnosis:
Frontal horns with two dorsal teeth. Anterior margin of carapace with several sharply pointed small teeth between small spiniform rostrum and frontal horns. Carapace behind cervical groove with spines. Four or five transverse grooves on second to fifth abdominal somites, not all reaching to base of pleura, and some interrupted dorsally. Atlantic species.

Type:
Type locality: "Habite les Antilles" Type material in MP, no. Pa 421, dry in rather good condition. This type specimen, if not the holotype, is here selected the lectotype. Not located in 1989.

Geographical Distribution:
Western Atlantic region: Bermuda, 5. Florida (USA), Caribbean arc from Cuba to Isla Margarita (Venezuela), Curaçao, and E. Brazil (Espiritu Santo State).

Habitat and Biology:
Depth range from 1 to 300 m, usually between 50 and 100 m. Inhabits the outer parts of coral reef slopes.

Size:
Maximum total body length about 15 cm, usually up to 10 cm.

Interest to Fisheries:
Very slight. The species is not the object of a special fishery, but is sometimes caught incidentally in lobster pots at greater depths. Morice (1958: 86) lists the species among the edible Crustacea of Martinique, and states that it is consumed locally by the fishermen, but appears hardly, if ever, on the markets.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Class CRustacea
Order Decapoda
Suborder Macrura Reptantia
Superfamily Palinuroidea
Family Palinuridae
Genus Justitia
Species Justitia longimanus

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Not included in WoRMS database

Scientific synonyms and common names

Justitia longimanus (H. Milne Edwards,1837)

Synonyms:
Palinurus longimanus H. Milne Edwards, 1837, Histoire naturelle des Crustacés, 2: 295.

Sometimes when used with the generic name Justitia, the specific name is incorrectly spelled longimana, probably because Justitia is a feminine name. However, as longimanus is a noun, its ending is not to be changed with the gender of the generic name (International Code, Art. 31(b)ii).

FAO Names:
West Indian furrow lobster [English]
Langouste caraïbe [French]
Langosta de muelas [Spanish]

Local Names:
CUBA: Camarón de lo alto
CURACAO: Kreef di laman hundu ( = deep sea lobster), Kreef di awa blau (= blue water lobster) (Papiamento language)
GUADELOUPE: Criquet(St. Barthelémy)
MARTINIQUE: Homard brésilien
USA: Long-armedlobster, Long- armed spiny lobster

Fischer, W. (ed.), 1978. FAO species identification sheets for fishery purposes Western Central Atlantic (Fishing Area 31), vol. 6:pag.var.

Milne Edwards, H., 1837. Histoire naturelle des Crustacés, comprenant l'anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces animaux, 2: 1-532, atl. pl. 1-42, 1-32.

Morice, J. 1958. Langoustes et Scyllares des Petites Antilles. Revue Travaux Institut Pêches maritimes, 22(1):105-114, figs 1-13

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