Panulirus gracilis, the green spiny lobster, is a crustacean species described by Thomas Hale Streets 1871. Panulirus gracilis is part of the genus Panulirus and the Palinuridae family . IUCN categorizes the species globally as insufficiently studied. No subspecies are listed in the Catalog of Life.
The species is frequently captured under legal size, which jeopardizes it reproductive cycle.
References Holthuis, L. B. (1991) Marine Lobsters of the World: An Annotated and Illustrated Catalogue of Species of Interest to Fisheries Known to Date, FAO Fisheries Synopsis, no. 125, vol. 13 ITIS: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Orrell T. (custodian), 2011-04-26
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