| Taxonomic Hierarchy 
        
          |  |  |  |  |  |  | Kingdom | Animalia 
 – Animal, animaux, animals |  |  |  | Subkingdom | Bilateria 
 – triploblasts |  |  |  | Infrakingdom | Protostomia |  |  |  | Superphylum | Ecdysozoa |  |  |  | Phylum | Arthropoda 
 – Artrópode, arthropodes, arthropods |  |  |  | Subphylum | Crustacea Brünnich, 1772
 – crustacés, crustáceo, crustaceans |  |  |  | Superclass | Altocrustacea |  |  |  | Class | Malacostraca Latreille, 1802 |  |  |  | Subclass | Eumalacostraca Grobben, 1892 |  |  |  | Superorder | Eucarida Calman, 1904
 – camarão, caranguejo, ermitão, lagosta, siri |  |  |  | Order | Decapoda Latreille, 1802
 – crabs, crayfishes, lobsters, prawns, shrimp, crabes, crevettes, écrevisses, homards |  |  |  | Suborder | Pleocyemata Burkenroad, 1963 |  |  |  | Infraorder | Achelata Scholtz and Richter, 1995 |  |  |  | Family | Palinuridae Latreille, 1802
 – spiny lobsters, furry lobsters |  |  |  | Genus | Panulirus White, 1847 |  |  |  | Species | Panulirus homarus (Linnaeus, 1758) – scalloped spiny lobster |  |  
          |  |  | Direct Children: |  |  |  | Subspecies | Panulirus homarus homarus (Linnaeus, 1758) |  |  |  | Subspecies | Panulirus homarus rubellus Berry, 1974 |  |  
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