Back كركنديات خفية Arabic كركنديات خفيه ARZ Escil·làrids Catalan Scyllaridae CEB Bärenkrebse German Scyllaridae Spanish شاهمیگوی دمپایی Persian Espanjanhummerit Finnish Scyllaridae French כפניים (סרטנים) HE
| Slipper lobsters Temporal range:
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| Scyllarides latus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Achelata |
| Family: | Scyllaridae Latreille, 1825 [1] |
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Slipper lobsters are a family (Scyllaridae) of about 90 species of achelate crustaceans, in the Decapoda clade Reptantia, found in all warm oceans and seas. They are not true lobsters, but are more closely related to spiny lobsters and furry lobsters. Slipper lobsters are instantly recognisable by their enlarged antennae, which project forward from the head as wide plates. All the species of slipper lobsters are edible, and some, such as the Moreton Bay bug and the Balmain bug (Ibacus peronii) are of commercial importance.
- ^ "Scyllaridae Latreille, 1825". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved October 21, 2011.
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