TL;DR: A new species of rock lobster, Jasus caveorum, is described from commercial catches taken on a non‐emergent seamount in the eastern South Pacific Ocean and differs clearly from that species in having very little abdominal “squamous” sculpturing.
Abstract: A new species of rock lobster, Jasus caveorum, is described from commercial catches taken on a non‐emergent seamount in the eastern South Pacific Ocean. The species best fits the "frontalis subgroup” of the "lalandii group” of Jasus lobsters. J. caveorum is most similar to J. frontalis from the eastern South Pacific, but differs clearly from that species in having very little abdominal “squamous” sculpturing.
TL;DR: The six spiny lobster species of the genera Jasus and Sagmariasus are the basis of some of the most important spiny Lobster fisheries found in the Southern Hemisphere.
Abstract: The six spiny lobster species of the genera Jasus and Sagmariasus are the basis of some of the most important spiny lobster fisheries found in the Southern Hemisphere.