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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) > Pleocyemata (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: Aphia-team [details] additional source: Brunel, P., L. Bosse, and G. Lamarche. 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. [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: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | type locality: New Jersey [details] Cobscook Bay [details] Gulf of Maine [details] North Sea [details] North West Atlantic [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To Marine Species Identification Portal To Barcode of Life (7 barcodes) 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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| Citation: Chan, T. (2009). Homarus americanus H. Milne Edwards, 1837. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=156134 on 2010-02-09 | |||||||||||
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