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Caribbean Spiny Lobster

Common Name: Caribbean Spiny Lobster

Scientific Name: Panulirus argus

Order:Arthropoda

Range: North Carolina to Brazil

Diet: Mainly eats gastropods, chitons, bivalves, and scavenges carrion (carcasses of dead animals)

Facts: 1. Its body is covered with spines 2. Begins life as free-swimming larva 3. Over 3 million pounds of spiny lobsters have been caught every years since spiny lobster fishing began in 1970 4. Does not have a large pinching claw

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