Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Eucarida > Order Decapoda > Suborder Macrura Reptantia > Infraorder Astacidea > Superfamily Nephropoidea > Family Nephropidae > Genus Homarus

Homarus americanus H. Milne Edwards, 1837

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Homarus*	Weber, 1795	accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: American lobster; lobster; maine lobster; northern lobster sources: Holthuis, L.B. 1991. FAO species catalogue. Vol 13. Marine lobsters of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries known to date. FAO fisheries Synopsis. 125 (13):292 p.

French: homard; homard américain sources: Holthuis, L.B. 1991. FAO species catalogue. Vol 13. Marine lobsters of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries known to date. FAO fisheries Synopsis. 125 (13):292 p.

Norwegian: amerikahummer sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Nynorsk (Norwegian): amerikahummar sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Spanish, Castillian: bogavante americano

Literature

basis of record	Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p.
additional source	Squires, W.A. 1976. The birds of New Brunswick. Second Edition. The New Brunswick Museum. Saint John. 221 p.
additional source	Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324.
additional source	Holthuis, L.B. 1991. FAO species catalogue. Vol 13. Marine lobsters of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of species of interest to fisheries known to date. FAO fisheries Synopsis. 125 (13):292 p.
additional source	Meinkoth, N.A. 1981. Field guide to North American seashore creatures. The Audubon Society. Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 799 p.
additional source	Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 43: 419-453
additional source	Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013].

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

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USNM Invertebrate Zoology Decapod Collection
Biodiversity Heritage Library (384 publications)
Barcode of Life (9 barcodes)
GenBank (30144 nucleotides; 231 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

Chan, T. (2014). Homarus americanus H. Milne Edwards, 1837. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:156134