INTRODUCTION As a result of separate investigations on Panulirus japonicus (sens, lat.), the present authors independently came to the conclusion that more than one species was included under that name. The first author (George), when in 1958 studying

Larval recruitment and fisheries of the spiny lobster J. Mar. Biol. Ass. India, 52 (2) : 195 -207, July -December 2010 Introduction In Japanese waters, nine Panulirus species have been reported (Sekiguchi, 2008): P. brunneiflagellum Sekiguchi and George,

We determined the complete nucleotide sequence of the mitochondrial genome for a Japanese spiny lobster, Panulirus japonicus (Crustacea: Decapoda). The entire genome was amplified using long polymerase chain reaction, and the products were subsequently