Species: Panulirus interruptus
Student: Ava Gleason
Information:
The Panulirus interruptus is found in bodies of salt water near California and Mexico. Their name, 'California Spiny lobster' comes from the fact that they the spiny lobster is a class of them? and are fished commercially and recreationally. They are gernerally found in deep waters although adults can be found in shallow waters. They usually fray? away from cold waters, but it is thought that any adults that are found in the cold waters of Monetary Bay arrived there as larvae during El Nino years. The habitat that the Panulirus inerruptus lives in is the Phyllosoma planktonic, and the general size for the Larvae is 1.2-31.2 mm and for adults it is 150-300mm. The larvae's typically diet is plankton, while the adults feed on sea urchins, mussels, clams, and worms. In Mexico and California Spiny Lobster (Panulirus interruptus) are the 5th most valuable fishery in their commercial resource. Because they are hihly fished in ocean waters, fishing restrictions are made during breeding seasons. Females carry 50,000 to 80,000 eggs in each hatch. If Panulirus interruptus are in danger they have very distinctive tactical awareness to predators. To warn against predators these shrimp rub their antennaes on file like surfaces making a sound that other shrimp can detect. While each hatch of Panulirus produces many new larvae. their extinction could be made possible due to commercial fishing.