Biogeographic distribution
The ornate rock lobster, Panulirus ornatus, is found throughout the Indo-Pacific but is particularly abundant in the Torres Strait and between Australia and Papua New Guinea (George, 1968).
The ornate rock lobster is distributed from the red sea of East Africa to the Southwest pacific in Australia. It has also been found in the South of western Australia at Cape Leuwin and across the tropical north of NSW (Pitcher et al. 1992c). |