Homarus

Taxonavigation

Homarus americanus

Taxonavigation: Nephropoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Crustacea Classis: Malacostraca Subclassis: Eumalacostraca Superordo: Eucarida Ordo: Decapoda Subordo: Pleocyemata Infraordo: Astacidea Superfamilia: Nephropoidea

Familia: Nephropidae
Subfamilia: Nephropinae
Genus: Homarus
Species (10): H. americanus – H. gammarus – †H. brittonestris – †H. davisi – †H. hakelensis – †H. lehmanni – †H. mickelsoni – †H. morrisi – †H. neptunianus – †H. travisensis

Name

• Homarus Weber, 1795
  • Type Species: Astacus marinus Fabricius, 1775 (=Cancer gammarus Linnaeus, 1758)
    • Fixation: subsequent designation by Fowler, 1912, Annual Report New Jersey State Museum, 1911: 333.

References

• Weber, 1795: Nomenclator entomologicus: 94.
• Herrick, F.H., 1895: The American Lobster: a study of its habits and development. Bulletin U.S. Fish Commission, 5: 1-252, text figs 1-40, pls 1-54
• Homarus Report on ITIS

Vernacular names

English: True Lobsters
italiano: Astice
português: Lagosta