CrustaceanLeast Concern

Painted lobster

Panulirus versicolor

Sightings logged

1

Dive sites

1

Peak season

Sep

Best time to see in the Maldives

Based on 1 community sighting

JFMAMJJASOND

Painted lobster

Peak: Sep

💡 Sighting data is crowd-sourced from diver logs. Patterns sharpen as more dives are logged.

Dive sites with Painted lobster sightings

1 site

Recent sightings

mausool

11 Sept 2026

Banana Reef · Male CityGood

28 mmedium29°C56 min

Whitetip reef shark Coral hind, Vermilion seabass Bluestriped snapper, Kashmir snapper Indian bannerfish Yellow boxfish Painted lobster Blue Parrotfish Giant Moray Eel

Dendronephthya

Rami

1

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