name: Spiny Lobster

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source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Spiny lobster

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name_scientific: Palinuridae

description: Spiny lobsters, also known as langouste or rock lobsters, are a family (Palinuridae) of about 60 species of achelate crustaceans, in the Decapoda Reptantia. Spiny lobsters are also, especially in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, sometimes called crayfish, sea crayfish or crawfish, terms which elsewhere are reserved for freshwater crayfish.

itis_id: 97646

wikipedia_id: Spiny lobster

picture_file_name: 532.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 153311

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:42:03.000Z

legacy_id: 559

food_group: Aquatic foods

food_subgroup: Crustaceans

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:47.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:05:26.000Z

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updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 6731

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00521