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SpeciesDecapodaNephropidae
Arthropods

🦀American lobster

Homarus americanus H.Milne Edwards, 1837

美洲螯龍蝦（学名：Homarus americanus），俗称波士頓龍蝦、缅因龙虾、美国大龙虾。分布於大西洋的北美洲海水水域，特別是加拿大海洋省份、紐芬蘭與拉布拉多、美國緬因州和麻薩諸塞州沿岸。与同属的欧洲螯龙虾等均为有重要经济价值的水产品。 美洲螯龍蝦雖然名字中帶有「龍蝦」二字，但實際上屬於海鳌虾科，跟龍蝦科的物種在外型及分類地位上完全不同。

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≈ 1/37th of your weight
Also called
Atlantic lobster, Atlantic Lobster, True Lobster
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2011.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
1.69 kg
Body length
0.25 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
100 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the American lobster

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Body mass
1.69 kgmaximum recorded
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Body length
0.25 mtypical adult, total length
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  • 1.14 mSeaLifeBasev25.04
Maximum lifespan
100 years
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data quality: acceptable

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Volume l
1.7 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for American lobster yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumArthropoda
  3. ›classMalacostraca
  4. ›orderDecapoda
  5. ›familyNephropidae
  6. ›genusHomarus
  7. ›speciesHomarus americanus
Full lineage
  1. classCrabs, shrimp & kin · Malacostraca
  2. orderCrabs, lobsters & shrimp · Decapoda
  3. superfamilyNephropoidea
  4. genusHomarus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classCrabs, shrimp & kin · Malacostraca
  4. subclassEumalacostraca
  5. superorderEucarida
  6. orderCrabs, lobsters & shrimp · Decapoda
  7. suborderPleocyemata
  8. infraorderAstacidea
  9. superfamilyNephropoidea
  10. genusHomarus
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In other languages
Homarus americanus (es), amerikahummer (nb), Amerikaanse zeekreeft (nl), 美洲螯龍蝦 (zh), Homar amerykański (pl), homard américain (fr) … and 21 more languages
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Nur01521 Flickr NOAA Photo LibraryAmerican lobster, Homarus americanus in Newfoundland, Canada (21173791512)
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