name: Spiny Lobster
flavor_db_name_variants: spiny lobster
source: foodb
status: draft
food_db_id: Spiny lobster
id: 521
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
creator_id: null
updater_id: null
export_to_afcdb: false
category: specific
ncbi_taxonomy_id: 6731
export_to_foodb: true
public_id: FOOD00521