The Cape lobster, Homarinus capensis, is a small lobster that lives off the coast of South Africa, between Cape Town and East London. Formerly included in the genus Homarus, it was given its own genusHomarinus in 1995. Cape lobsters are elusive and rare, with only fourteen specimens being collected between 1792 (the date of its first description) and 1992, including only one female. Following the discovery of three living individuals in 1997, the only living examples in the world, the East London Aquarium now hopes to breed this species. Scientific classification or biological classification refers to how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Phyla Porifera (sponges) Ctenophora (comb jellies) Cnidaria Placozoa Bilateria Acoelomorpha Orthonectida Rhombozoa ? Myxozoa Superphylum Deuterostomia Chordata (vertebrates, etc. ... Subphyla and Classes Subphylum Trilobitomorpha Trilobita - Trilobites (extinct) Subphylum Chelicerata Arachnida - Spiders, Scorpions, etc. ... Classes Remipedia Cephalocarida Branchiopoda Ostracoda Maxillopoda Malacostraca The crustaceans (Crustacea) are a large group of arthropods (55,000 species), usually treated as a subphylum. ... Orders Not necessarily a complete list: Leptostraca Stomatopoda Bathynellacea Thermosbaenacea Mysidacea Cumacea Amphipoda Isopoda Tanaidacea Euphausiacea Amphionidacea Decapoda Peracarida The Malacostraca are the largest subgroup of crustaceans, and include most of the animals that non-experts recognise as crustaceans, including the decapods (such as crabs, mole crabs, lobsters and true... Suborders Either suborders: Natantia Reptantia or suborders: Dendrobranchiata Pleocyemata The decapods or Decapoda are a group of crustaceans within the class Malacostraca. ... Infraorders Caridea Stenopodidea Reptantia, divided into: Polychelida Achelata Glypheoidea Astacidea Thalassinidea Anomala Brachyura Pleocyemata is a sub-order of decapod crustaceans, erected by Martin Burkenroad in 1963. ... Superfamilies see text Astacidea is a group of decapod crustaceans including lobsters, crayfish and their close relatives. ... Clawed lobsters comprise a family (Nephropidae) of large marine crustaceans. ... In biology, binomial nomenclature is a standard convention used for naming species. ... Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst (1743 - 1807) was a German naturalist and entomologist. ... 1792 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Subfamilies and Genera Neophoberinae Acanthacaris Thymopinae Nephropsis Nephropides Thymops Thymopsis Nephropinae Homarus Nephrops Homarinus Metanephrops Eunephrops Thymopides Clawed lobsters comprise a family (Nephropidae, sometimes also Homaridae) of large marine crustaceans. ... The Republic of South Africa is a large republic located at the southern tip of the continent. ... The central area of Cape Town as seen from Table Mountain. ... This article is about the city in South Africa. ... Homarus is a genus of lobster from the phylum Arthropda, which include the common and commercially significant species American Lobster (Homarus americanus) and the European Lobster (Homarus gammarus). ... See genus (mathematics) for the use of the term in mathematics. ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1792 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1997 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Reef. ...
The closest relatives of clawed lobsters are the reef lobster Enoplometopus and the three families of freshwater crayfish.
The environmental conditions of the lobsters can vary from ocean to ocean, but the lobster's temperature environment does not fluctuate much since their home is large mass of water, the ocean.
Because a lobster lives in a murky environment at the bottom of the ocean, its vision is poor and it mostly uses its antennae as sensors.
Lobsters live on rocky, sandy, or muddy bottoms from the shoreline to beyond the edge of the continental shelf.
The anatomy of the lobster includes the cephalothorax which is the head fused with the thorax, both of which are covered by the carapace, and the abdomen.
Fresh lobster quickly became a luxury food and a tourist attraction for the Maritimes and Maine and an export to Europe and Japan where it is especially expensive.
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