What the heck is this?

[ddowling]

Shot this a couple days ago in Bonaire. Any ideas?

 

[Hawkwood]

Slipper Lobster

A little info here:
Marine Fish Picture Gallery - Slipper Lobster picture

 

[herman]

Yep, slipper....and tasty too!

 

[Sinbad the Diver]

Yep, slipper....and tasty too!

Some southwest style seasonings then deep fried (no batter) mmmmmmm yummy

 

[ddowling]

Thanks guys!

 

[herman]

Nahhh, grilled with garlic butter. I fry the fish.

 

[Kukuisa]

A bit more specific: Spanish Lobster, Scyllarides aequinoctialis.
Don't know about the taste but believe what others wrote.

 

[Walter]

That's not what we call a Spanish Lobster. We call that a Shovel-nose, Bulldozier, or
Slipper Lobster. The lobster we call a Spanish Lobster is Panulirus guttatus, it
looks like the Spiny Lobster Panulirus argus, but it's smaller and has more spots.

 

[Kukuisa]

Walter,

First of all: I do not question your expertise and am open to any correction.

My sources:
The name "Spanish Lobster" is given in the reef creatures book by Paul Human to a Scyllarides sp. and the book of Nancy Sefton & Steven Webster does the same. They call spiny lobsters as Panulirus sp.

The smaller spiny lobster with the spots we call here a Rock Lobster. Human names it as "Spotted Spiny Lobster, also commonly known as the Spanish Lobster".
This may create confusion.

K.

 

[smellzlikefish]

Common names in general cause confusion.