Slipper lobster — also called shovel-nosed, bay, bulldozer or Moreton Bay "bug" in Australia and cigale de mer in France — is the sweet, firm tail meat of a squat, flattened, clawless marine crustacean whose front antennae are fused into broad, plate-like shovels rather than the long whips of a spiny lobster. Like its kin it carries almost all of its eating muscle in the short, fan-tipped tail, which cooks to a dense, sweet, lobster-like flesh prized across the Indo-Pacific and Mediterranean.