| Homarus Temporal range:
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| Homarus gammarus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Family: | Nephropidae |
| Genus: | Homarus Weber, 1795 |
| Type species | |
| Astacus marinus Fabricius, 1775
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| Extant species | |
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H. americanus – American lobster | |
Homarus is a genus of lobsters, which include the common and commercially significant species Homarus americanus (the American lobster) and Homarus gammarus (the European lobster).[1] The Cape lobster, which was formerly in this genus as H. capensis, was moved in 1995 to the new genus Homarinus.[2]
- ^ "Homarus Weber, 1795". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved June 25, 2011.
- ^ Irv Kornfield; Austin B. Williams; Robert S. Steneck (1995). "Assignment of Homarus capensis (Herbst, 1792), the Cape lobster of South Africa, to Homarius new genus (Decapoda: Nephropidae)" (PDF). Fishery Bulletin. 93 (1): 97–102.