Tristan rock lobster

Taxobox | name = Tristan rock lobster
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Crustacea
classis = Malacostraca
ordo = Decapoda
familia = Palinuridae
genus = "Jasus"
species = "J. tristani"
binomial = "Jasus tristani"
binomial_authority = Holthuis, 1963

The Tristan rock lobster, "Jasus tristani", is a species of rock lobster endemic to the Tristan da Cunha archipelago and Vema Seamount, 1,680 km north-east of Tristan .cite web |title=Marine lobsters of the world |author = Lipke Holthuis |year=1991 |url=http://ip30.eti.uva.nl/bis/lobsters.php?menuentry=soorten&id=133 |publisher=Food and Agriculture Organization |id=ISBN 92-5-103027-8] It is very closely related to "J. paulensis" and these two may represent a single species.cite journal |quotes=no |title=Mitochondrial DNA phylogeny of red and green rock lobsters (genus "Jasus") |author=J. R. Ovenden, J. D. Booth and A. J. Smolenski |journal=Marine and Freshwater Research |volume=48 |issue=8 |pages=1131–1136 |doi=10.1071/MF97192 |year=1997] The Tristan rock lobster features on the coat of arms and the flag of Tristan da Cunha. Until 1950, the Tristan rock lobster was only fished for local consumption, but after that time, companies such as the South Atlantic Islands Development Corporation have exploited the rock lobster population. Production peaked in the 1970s, with over 800 tonnes being collected in some years, but the industry has since waned, with less than 400 t being caught most years since 1992.cite web |title=Global Capture Production 1950-2004 |url=http://www.fao.org/figis/servlet/TabLandArea?tb_ds=Capture&tb_mode=TABLE&tb_act=SELECT&tb_grp=COUNTRY |publisher=Food and Agriculture Organization]

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