Homarus

Homarus
Temporal range: Albian–Recent
Homarus gammarus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Family: Nephropidae
Genus: Homarus
Weber, 1795
Type species
Astacus marinus
Fabricius, 1775
Extant species

H. americanusAmerican lobster
H. gammarus – European 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]

  1. ^ "Homarus Weber, 1795". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved June 25, 2011.
  2. ^ 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.