Wr. Webber et Jd. Booth, A NEW SPECIES OF JASUS (CRUSTACEA, DECAPODA, PALINURIDAE) FROM THE EASTERN SOUTH-PACIFIC OCEAN, New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 29(4), 1995, pp. 613-622
A new species of rock lobster, Jasus caveorum, is described from comme
rcial catches taken on a non-emergent seamount in the eastern South Pa
cific Ocean. The species best fits the ''frontalis subgroup'' of the '
'lalandii group'' of Jasus lobsters. J. caveorum is most similar to J.
frontalis from the eastern South Pacific, but differs clearly from th
at species in having very little abdominal ''squamous'' sculpturing.