- Homarus
Taxobox | name = "Homarus"
image_width = 250px
image_caption = "Homarus americanus"
regnum =Animal ia
phylum =Arthropod a
subphylum = Crustacea
classis =Malacostraca
ordo =Decapoda
familia = Nephropidae
genus = "Homarus"
genus_authority = Weber, 1795
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = "H. americanus" —American lobster "H. gammarus" —European lobster "Homarus" is a
genus oflobster s, which include the common and commercially significant species "Homarus americanus" (American lobster ) and theEuropean lobster ("Homarus gammarus") [ITIS|taxon="Homarus"|ID=97313] . TheCape lobster , which was formerly in this genus as "H. capensis", was moved in 1995 to the new genus "Homarinus" [cite journal |quotes=no |author=Kornfield, I., A. Williams, & R. S. Steneck |year=1995 |title=Assignment of "Homarus capensis" (Herbst, 1792), the Cape lobster of South Africa, to "Homarius" new genus (Decapoda: Nephropidae) |journal=Fishery Bulletin |volume=93 |pages=97–102] .The American and European lobsters are very similar and are difficult to tell apart. The best characters are the geographic distribution, with the American lobster in the western Atlantic and the European lobster in the eastern Atlantic, and by the presence of one or more teeth on the underside of the rostrum [cite book |url=http://ip30.eti.uva.nl/bis/lobsters.php?menuentry=tekstsleutel&pagenum=12 |title=FAO species catalogue Vol. 13: Marine lobsters of the world. |author=
Lipke Holthuis |date=1991 |publisher=FAO] .References
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