Easter Island Slipper Lobster

Scyllarides roggeveeni

• Group: Lobster
• IUCN status: DD

This slipper lobster is known only from the waters around Easter Island, where every specimen so far has come up in lobster traps. It reaches a substantial size for its kind, and with so little else recorded the IUCN lists it as Data Deficient.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Arthropoda › Malacostraca › Decapoda › Scyllaridae › Scyllarides

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 382916.