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Ridged Slipper Lobster

Common Name: Ridged Slipper Lobster

Scientific Name: Scyllarides nodifer

Order: Arthropoda

Range: North Carolina to the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

Diet: Limpets, mussels, oysters, crustaceans, polychaetes, and echinoderms

Facts: 1. Appeared in the fossil record between 100-120 million years ago 2. The large plates on front of the slipper lobster is a pair of antennae 3. Are not true lobsters

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