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Furry lobster
Palinurellus gundlachi
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Infraorder:	Achelata
Family:	Palinuridae
Groups included
Palinurellus Palibythus

Furry lobsters (sometimes called coral lobsters) are small decapod crustaceans, closely related to the slipper lobsters and spiny lobsters. The antennae are not as enlarged as in spiny and slipper lobsters, and the body is covered in short hairs, hence the name furry lobster. Although previously considered a family in their own right (Synaxidae Spence Bate, 1881), the furry lobsters were subsumed into the family Palinuridae in 1990. Subsequent molecular phylogenetics studies have confirmed that the furry lobsters genera don't form a natural group and were both nested among the spiny lobster genera in family Palinuridae. The family now includes the two furry lobster genera and ten spiny lobster genera.

Taxonomy

There are two genera, with three species between them:

• Palinurellus gundlachi Von Martens, 1878 – Caribbean furry lobster, found in the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic coast of South America; named for Juan Gundlach
• Palinurellus wieneckii (De Man, 1881) – mole lobster, with an Indo-Pacific distribution
• Palibythus magnificus P. J. F. Davie, 1990 – musical furry lobster, from the South Pacific (originally described from Samoa)

References

1. ^ Ferran Palero; Keith A. Crandall; Pere Abelló; Enrique Macpherson; Marta Pascual (2009). "Phylogenetic relationships between spiny, slipper and coral lobsters (Crustacea, Decapoda, Achelata)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 50 (1): 152–162. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.10.003. PMID 18957325.
2. Joel W. Martin; George E. Davis (2001). An Updated Classification of the Recent Crustacea (PDF). Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. pp. 1–132. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-05-12. Retrieved 2010-06-04.
3. "Palinuridae". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
4. "Synaxidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved February 15, 2011.

v t e Subgroups of order Decapoda
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Malacostraca Subclass: Eumalacostraca Superorder: Eucarida
Dendrobranchiata	Penaeoidea Sergestoidea
Pleocyemata	Stenopodidea Stenopodidae Macromaxillocarididae Spongicolidae Procarididea Procarididae Caridea Alpheoidea Atyoidea Bresilioidea Campylonotoidea Crangonoidea Galatheacaridoidea Nematocarcinoidea Oplophoroidea Palaemonoidea Pandaloidea Pasiphaeoidea Physetocaridoidea Processoidea Psalidopodoidea Stylodactyloidea Reptantia Achelata Palinuridae (inc. Synaxidae) Scyllaridae †Cancrinidae †Tricarinidae? Polychelida †Coleiidae †Eryonidae †Palaeopentachelidae Polychelidae †Tetrachelidae Glypheidea Glypheoidea †Erymoidea Astacidea Astacoidea Enoplometopoidea Nephropoidea †Palaeopalaemonoidea Parastacoidea Axiidea Axiidae Callianassidae Callianideidae Ctenochelidae Gourretiidae Micheleidae Strahlaxiidae Gebiidea Axianassidae Laomediidae Thalassinidae Upogebiidae Anomura Aegloidea Chirostyloidea †Eocarcinoidea Galatheoidea Hippoidea Lomisoidea Paguroidea Brachyura see Brachyura

• Achelata
• Arthropod common names
• Paraphyletic groups