Moreton Bay bug — one of the two Australian "bugs," alongside the reef-dwelling Balmain bug — is the sweet, firm tail meat of a squat, flattened, clawless flathead lobster of the genus Thenus, named for the shallow sandy bay near Brisbane where it is trawled. A slipper lobster by family, it wears its second antennae as broad, hard shovel-plates rather than the whip-like feelers of a spiny lobster, and, like all its clawless kin, carries nearly every scrap of eating muscle in the short, fan-tipped tail — a dense, sweet, lobster-like flesh that is a fixture of Australian restaurant menus.