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Like other warm water lobsters (and contrary to their cold water equivalents), the Caribbean spiny lobster lacks claws.

Caribbean spiny lobsters get their name from forward-pointing spines that cover their bodies to help protect them from predators.

They have a reddish brown shell, marked with occasional dark spots and two large, cream-colored spots on the top of the second segment of the tail.
They have long, horn-like antennae over their eyes that they wave to scare off predators, and smaller antennae-like “antennules” that sense movement and detect chemicals in the water.