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Panulirus ornatus (known by a number of common names, including tropical rock lobster, ornate rock lobster,ornate spiny lobster and ornate tropical rock lobster is a large edible spiny lobster with 11 larval stages that has not been successfully bred in captivity.
P. ornatus has a wide geographical range in the Indo-Pacific, from the Red Sea and KwaZulu-Natal in the west to Japan and Fiji in the east.In most parts of its range, the lobster is netted or speared, while in Northeast Australia, a commercial fishery has existed since 1966 and the harvesting of the species is regulated by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority.[2][4] The species now also occurs in the Mediterranean, having invaded as a Lessepsian migrant through the Suez Canal.