Bight lobster

Bight lobster

Taxobox
name = Bight lobster
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Crustacea
classis = Malacostraca
ordo = Decapoda
infraordo = Astacidea
familia = Nephropidae
genus = "Metanephrops"
species = "M. boschmai"
binomial = "Metanephrops boschmai"
binomial_authority = (Holthuis, 1964)

The bight lobster, "Metanephrops boschmai", is a species of lobster endemic to Australia [cite book |http://ip30.eti.uva.nl/bis/lobsters.php?menuentry=soorten&id=95 |title=FAO species catalogue Vol. 13: Marine lobsters of the world |author=Lipke Holthuis |date=1991 |publisher=FAO |url=http://ip30.eti.uva.nl/bis/lobsters.php?menuentry=soorten&id=95] . It is found off the west and south coasts of Western Australia from Port Hedland to Eucla. The bight lobster has a smooth carapace with large spines.

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