Fishing for Florida lobsterette

Nephropsis aculeata

The Florida lobsterette is a small, slender, deep-water lobster with a pale pinkish-white body, long thin claws, and a spiny rostrum. It lives on soft muddy bottoms of the deep western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, typically far below 600 feet. The body reaches about 6 inches. A deep-sea species, it is taken mainly as bycatch in deepwater trawls. This summary was AI generated

Water type

Saltwater

IUCN Status

Least concern

Threat to humans

Harmless

Source: Fishbase

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