| Reef lobsters Temporal range: Middle Permian - present
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| Enoplometopus antillensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Astacidea |
| Superfamily: | Enoplometopoidea De Saint Laurent, 1988 |
| Family: | Enoplometopidae De Saint Laurent, 1988 |
| Genus: | Enoplometopus A. Milne Edwards, 1862 |
| Type species | |
| Enoplometopus pictus A. Milne Edwards, 1862 [1]
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| Synonyms | |
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Hoplometopus Holthuis, 1983 | |
Reef lobsters, Enoplometopus, are a genus of small lobsters that live on reefs in the Indo-Pacific, Caribbean and warmer parts of the Atlantic Ocean.[2]
- ^ L. B. Holthuis (1983). "Notes on the genus Enoplometopus, with descriptions of a new subgenus and two new species (Crustacea Decapoda, Axiidae)" (PDF). Zoologische Mededelingen. 56 (22): 281–298, pls. 1–4.
- ^ Helmut Debelius (2001). Crustacea: Guide of the World. Frankfurt am Main: IKAN, Unterwasserarchiv. pp. 44–54, 200–205. ISBN 978-3-931702-74-8.