Nephrops norvegicus

Tags: Crustacean.

Nephrops norvegicus known variously as the Norway lobster Dublin Bay prawn langoustine (compare langostino) or scampi is a slim orange-pink lobster which grows up to 25 cm (10 in) long and is the most important commercial crustacean in Europe. It is now the only extant species in the genus Nephrops after several other species were moved to the closely related genus Metanephrops.

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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

Nephrops

kingdom

Animal

order

Decapoda

phylum

Arthropod, Crustacean

synonym

*Astacus norvegicus (Fabricius 1775), *Astacus rugosus (Rafinesque 1814), *Cancer norvegicus (Linnaeus 1758), *Homarus norvegicus (Weber 1795), *Nephropsis cornubiensis (Bate & Rowe 1880)

latitude

56.3

longitude

12.4667