| Spiny lobsters Temporal range:
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| Panulirus interruptus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Achelata |
| Family: | Palinuridae Latreille, 1802 |
Spiny lobsters, also known as langustas, langouste, or rock lobsters, are a family (Palinuridae) of about 60 species of achelate crustaceans, in the Decapoda Reptantia. Spiny lobsters are also, especially in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, and the Bahamas, called crayfish, sea crayfish, or crawfish ("kreef" in South Africa), terms which elsewhere are reserved for freshwater crayfish.[1]
- ^ Harold W. Sims Jr. (1965). "Let's call the spiny lobster 'spiny lobster'". Crustaceana. 8 (1): 109–110. doi:10.1163/156854065X00613. JSTOR 20102626.