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- Like true lobsters, spiny lobsters are edible and are an economically significant food source; they are the biggest food export of the Bahamas, for instance.
- Although it is often referred to as the " furry lobster " outside the scientific literature, " Kiwa hirsuta " is a squat lobster, more closely related to crabs and hermit crabs than true lobsters.
- Of the 280, 000 tons of lobster catches reported to the Food and Agriculture Organization for the year 2010, 188, 000 t ( 67 % ) was of true lobsters ( family Nephropidae ), 80, 000 t ( 28 % ) was of spiny lobsters ( Palinuridae ) and about 10, 000 t ( 4 % ) was of slipper lobsters ( Scyllaridae ).