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Jasus lalandii (Cape rock lobster)

Synonyms: Palinostus lalandii; Palinosytus lalandii; Palinurus lalandii; Palinurus spec

Wikipedia Abstract

Jasus lalandii (also called the Cape rock lobster or West Coast rock lobster) is a species of spiny lobster found off the coast of Southern Africa. It is not known whom the specific epithet lalandii commemorates, although it may be the French astronomer Jérôme Lalande.
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Prey / Diet

Aulacomya atra (ribbed mussel)[1]

Predators

Aonyx capensis (African Clawless Otter)[2]
Octopus vulgaris (common octopus)[3]
Phalacrocorax neglectus (Bank Cormorant)[4]
Triakis megalopterus (Spotty)[3]

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External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Predator-prey relationships between the rock lobster Jasus lalandii and the mussel Aulacomya ater at Robben Island on the Cape West Coast of Africa, D. E. Pollock, Marine Biology, Volume 52, Number 4 / December, 1979, pages 347-356
♦ 2Aonyx capensis, Serge Larivière, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 671, pp. 1–6 (2001)
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 4BirdLife International (2012) Species factsheet: Phalacrocorax neglectus. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 09/09/2012.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0