Slipper lobster digging

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Uploaded by on Sep 28, 2006

Video clip of slipper lobster (Ibacus peronii) digging. Supplemental video to research article: Faulkes Z. 2006. Digging mechanisms and substrate preferences of shovel nosed lobsters, Ibacus peronii (Decapoda: Scyllaridae). Journal of Crustacean Biology 26(1): 69-72.

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  • I think this may also be called a Balmain bug in Australia. Can anyone verify this?

  • @solufane Several slipper lobster species are fished commercially in Australia. This one, Ibacus peronii, is indeed known as Balmain bugs. Other species, Ibacus alticrenatus and Thenus orientalis, are usually called Moreton Bay bugs.

    People are slipshod in distinguishing between them, though. I've seen each Ibacus species sold both as as Balmain bugs and as Moreton Bay bugs.

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  • Wish these could be sold live like aquatic fish. They're so funny looking.

  • @zfaulkes Being tasty is a major evolutionary flaw for these creatures.

  • @zfaulkes thanks for the reply.

  • Oh how cute little creature!! I like it <3

  • No not getting mad. Just hard to recognize if people are being assholes online through typing.

  • are you getting mad at me?

    its really not a lobster its related more towards a crab

  • Your a smart ass...They damn sure taste like lobster and they are commonly called slipper lobster, bulldozers, or shovelnose lobster.

  • actually its not a lobster =/

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