Homarus gammarus

Tags: Crustacean.

Homarus gammarus known as the European lobster or common lobster is a species of clawed lobster from the eastern Atlantic Ocean Mediterranean Sea and parts of the Black Sea. It is closely related to the American lobster H. americanus. It may grow to a length of 60 cm (24 in) and a mass of 6 kilograms (13 lb) and bears a conspicuous pair of claws. In life the lobsters are blue only becoming lobster red on cooking.

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binomial authority

Carl Linnaeus, 10th edition of Systema Naturae

class

Malacostraca

conservation status

LC

conservation status system

iucn3.1

family

Lobster

genus

Homarus

kingdom

Animal

order

Decapoda

phylum

Arthropod, Crustacean

synonym

*Astacus europaeus (Couch 1837), *Astacus gammarus (Pennant 1777), *Astacus marinus (Fabricius 1775), *Cancer gammarus (Linnaeus 1758), *Homarus marinus (Weber 1795), *Homarus vulgaris (H. Milne-Edwards 1837)

latitude

57.8833

longitude

11.5333