Justitia (crustacean) explained

Justitia is a genus of spiny lobsters. Following the recognition of Nupalirus as a separate genus, Justitia comprises one extant species and two fossil species:^[1]

• Justitia longimanus (H. Milne-Edwards, 1837) – Recent

• Justitia longimanus longimanus (H. Milne-Edwards, 1837) – western Atlantic

• Justitia longimana mauritiana (Miers, 1882) – Indo-Pacific
• † Justitia desmaresti (Massalongo, 1854) – late Ypresian or early Lutetian, Monte Bolca, Italy ^[2]
• † Justitia vicetina Beschin et al., 2001 – middle Lutetian, Chiampo, Vicenza, Italy ^[2]

Notes and References

1. Tin-Yam Chan . 2010 . Annotated checklist of the world's marine lobsters (Crustacea: Decapoda: Astacidea, Glypheidea, Achelata, Polychelida) . Martyn E. Y. Low . S. H. Tan . Raffles Bulletin of Zoology . Suppl. 23 . 153–181 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120316150833/http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/rbz/biblio/s23/s23rbz153-181.pdf . 2012-03-16.
2. Alessandro Garassino & Antonio De Angeli . 2003 . Justitia Holthuis, 1946 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Palinuridea) from the Middle Eocene of Verona and Vicenza (northern Italy) . . 72 . 2/3 . 131–132 . 10.1163/18759866-0720203011 . free .