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Family: PALINURIDAE 



Genus: PANULIRUS J. E. Gray 



Panulirus ornatus (Fabricius) 



Plate 16 



Type : Fabricius' type came from the Indian Ocean and, if still 

 extant, is probably in the British Museum of Natural History. 



Distribution: This species is exclusively Indo-Pacific in its 

 distribution, having been reliably recorded from the following 

 places : Obock, Saint Augustine Bay, Nosse Be, Madagascar (Gru- 

 vel) ; Madagascar (Bouvier) ; Zanzibar, He de France, seas of 

 India (H. M. Edwards) ; Mozambique (Hilgendorf, Lenz and 

 Richters, Hoffman) ; Reunion Island (Hoffman) ; Durban, S. 

 Africa (Stebbing) ; Singapore (Walker) ; Tonkin, Cochin China 

 (Miers, Hilgendorf, de Man, Gruvel) ; Nha-Trang, Annam, (Gru- 

 vel) ; Java (Heller) ; Singgora (Lanchester) ; Takao and Tamsu, 

 S. Formosa, Making, Pescadores Island, Hankow, Amoy, Suma- 

 tra, Swatow, Herbertshohe, Neu Pommern (Balss) ; Borneo 

 (Miers) ; Amboina, Moluccas (Miers, Hilgendorf, de Man, Gru- 

 vel) ; Sorong, British New Guinea (de Man) ; New Guinea 

 (Miers) ; north coasts of Australia (Miers, Haswell) ; 42 miles 

 W. S. W. off Cape Jaubert, Australia (Balss) ; Samoa (Haswell) ; 

 Tahiti, Society Islands (Boone). 



Material examined : One large specimen from Venus Point 

 Reef, Tahiti, August 15, 1931. 



