WoRMS taxon details
Homarus americanus H. Milne Edwards, 1837
AphiaID: 156134
AphiaID: 156134
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Eucarida (Superorder) > Decapoda (Order) > Macrura Reptantia (Suborder) > Astacidea (Infraorder) > Nephropoidea (Superfamily) > Nephropidae (Family) > Homarus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Homarus Weber, 1795 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
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. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Meinkoth, N.A. 1981. Field guide to North American seashore creatures. The Audubon Society. Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 799 p. [details] additional source: Squires, W.A. 1976. The birds of New Brunswick. Second Edition. The New Brunswick Museum. Saint John. 221 p. [details] 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. [details] 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 (look up in IMIS) [details] 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. [details] additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | type locality: New Jersey [details] Cobscook Bay [details] FAO fishing area 21 [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] North Sea [details] North West Atlantic [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE) To Barcode of Life (9 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (384 publications) To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To FAO Species fact sheets To GenBank (30144 nucleotides; 231 proteins) To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Decapod Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: Western Atlantic: Labrador to Rich Inlet, near Wilmington, NC [details] Habitat: This species is found at depths of 0-800 m over hard substrate from near shoreline to continental shelf. [details] Taxonomy: Infaorder: Astacidea, according to Trott (2004). [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:156134 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Chan, T. (2013). Homarus americanus H. Milne Edwards, 1837. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=156134 on 2013-05-18 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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