Homarus

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Homarus
Image:Lobster.jpg
Homarus americanus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Subphylum:Crustacea
Class:Malacostraca
Order:Decapoda
Suborder:Pleocyemata
Infraorder:Astacidea
Family:Nephropidae
Genus:Homarus
Species

Homarus is a genus of lobsters, which include the common and commercially significant species Homarus americanus (American lobster) and the European lobster (Homarus gammarus). The Cape lobster, which was formerly in this genus as H. capensis, was moved in 1995 to the new genus Homarinus

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