Cape lobster

Cape lobster

Taxobox
name = Cape lobster
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Crustacea
classis = Malacostraca
ordo = Decapoda
infraordo = Astacidea
familia = Nephropidae
genus = "Homarinus"
genus_authority = Kornfield, Williams & Steneck, 1995
species = "H. capensis"
binomial = "Homarinus capensis"
binomial_authority = (Herbst, 1792)

The Cape lobster, "Homarinus capensis", is a small lobster that lives off the coast of South Africa, between Cape Town and East London. Formerly included in the genus "Homarus", it was given its own genus "Homarinus" in 1995.

Cape lobsters are elusive and rare, with only fourteen specimens being collected between 1792 (the date of its first description) and 1992, including only one female. Following the discovery of three living individuals in 1997, the only known living examples in the world, the East London Aquarium now hopes to breed this species.


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