Palinurus

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Superclassis: Multicrustacea
Classis: Malacostraca
Subclassis: Eumalacostraca
Superordo: Eucarida
Ordo: Decapoda
Subordo: Pleocyemata
Infraordo: Achelata

Familia: Palinuridae
Genus: Palinurus
Species (6): P. barbarae – P. charlestoni – P. delagoae – P. elephas – P. gilchristi – P. mauritanicus

Check: P. homarus – P. vulgaris

[source: WoRMS]
Name

Palinurus Weber, 1795

Type species: Astacus elephas Fabricius, 1787 (type by monotypy).
References
Tin-Yam Chan 2010. Annotated checklist of the world's marine lobsters (Crustacea: Decapoda: Astacidea, Glypheidea, Achelata, Polychelida). In Martyn E. Y. Low and S. H. Tan. Annotated checklist of anomuran decapod crustaceans of the world (exclusive of the Kiwaoidea and families Chirostylidae and Galatheidae of the Galatheoidea) and marine lobsters of the world. Zootaxa, Suppl. 23: 153–181. Archived from the original on 2012-03-16.

Palinurus is a genus of spiny lobsters in the family Palinuridae, native to the eastern Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea and western Indian Ocean. A 110-million-year-old fossil, recognisable as a member of the genus Palinurus, was discovered in a quarry in El Espinal in Mexico's Chiapas state in 1995 and named P. palaciosi.[2][3]
Species

This is a complete list of extant species:[1][4]

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	Palinurus barbarae Groeneveld, Griffiths & van Dalsen, 2006[5]		south of Madagascar
	Palinurus charlestoni Forest & Postel, 1964	Cape Verde spiny lobster	Cape Verde
	Palinurus delagoae Barnard, 1926	Natal spiny lobster
	Palinurus elephas (Fabricius, 1787)	common spiny lobster	eastern Atlantic Ocean, from southern Norway to Morocco and the Azores, and in the Mediterranean Sea
	Palinurus gilchristi Stebbing, 1900	southern spiny lobster	South Africa and Madagascar.
	Palinurus mauritanicus Gruvel, 1911	pink spiny lobster	eastern Atlantic Ocean and the western Mediterranean Sea.

References

Lipke Holthuis (1991). FAO species catalogue Vol. 13: Marine lobsters of the world. FAO. Archived from the original on 2011-07-17.
Victoria Jaggard (May 3, 2007). "Oldest Lobster Fossil Found in Mexico". National Geographic News. Archived from the original on May 5, 2007.
Francisco J. Vega; Pedro García-Barrera; María del Carmen Perrilliat; Marco A. Coutiño; Ricardo Mariño-Pérez (2006). "El Espinal, a new plattenkalk facies locality from the Lower Cretaceous Sierra Madre Formation, Chiapas, southeastern Mexico" (PDF). Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas. 23 (3): 323–333.
"Palinurus Weber, 1795". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved January 15, 2012.
John Yeld (September 11, 2006). "Scientists find new giant lobster species". Cape Argus. p. 3.