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The American lobster (Homarus americanus) is a large clawed crustacean inhabiting cold-water regions of the Northwest Atlantic. It’s notable for its significant role in North America's commercial fisheries and represents the largest commercially harvested species of lobster globally. Fishermen, seaf...
The European lobster (Homarus gammarus) is a large clawed crustacean found across the Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean, closely related to the American lobster but distinguished by its vivid blue coloration in life.
The New Zealand scampi (Metanephrops challengeri) is a deepwater lobsterette endemic to New Zealand waters, targeted by a commercially licensed scampi fishery and named in reference to HMS Challenger's historic oceanographic expeditions.
The Cape lobster (Homarus capensis) is a rare, small clawed lobster endemic to the waters off South Africa, representing the only Homarus species found in the Southern Hemisphere.
The Japanese lobsterette (Metanephrops japonicus) is a deepwater clawed lobster native to the seas around Japan and neighboring East Asian waters, occasionally taken as bycatch in trawl fisheries.
The Chinese lobsterette (Metanephrops sinensis) is a deepwater nephropsid lobster found in the South China Sea and surrounding East Asian waters, occasionally harvested in regional trawl fisheries.
The Australian lobsterette (Metanephrops australiensis) is a deepwater clawed lobster native to Australian waters, contributing to small-scale scampi fisheries off the continent's northern and northwestern coasts.
The Caribbean lobsterette (Metanephrops binghami) is a small deepwater nephropsid lobster found in the western Atlantic around the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, occurring at depths generally below 200 metres.
The Taiwan lobsterette (Metanephrops taiwanicus) is a deepwater clawed lobster known from waters around Taiwan and neighboring parts of the western Pacific, described from specimens collected during scientific surveys.
The Andaman lobsterette (Metanephrops andamanicus) is a deepwater nephropsid crustacean found in the Indian Ocean, particularly around the Andaman Sea, and is one of several Metanephrops species in Indo-Pacific waters.
The Florida deepsea lobster (Nephropsis aculeata) is a small, clawless deepwater lobster found in the western Atlantic from the Gulf of Mexico to the Caribbean, living at depths typically exceeding 200 metres.
The Mozambique lobsterette (Metanephrops mozambicus) is a deepwater nephropsid lobster found in the western Indian Ocean off the coast of southeastern Africa, including the Mozambique Channel.
Thomson's lobsterette (Metanephrops thomsoni) is a deepwater clawed lobster found in the Indo-Pacific, named in honor of naturalist C. Wyville Thomson, leader of the HMS Challenger expedition.
The Neptune lobsterette (Metanephrops neptunus) is a deepwater clawed lobster distributed in the Indo-Pacific region, one of several morphologically similar Metanephrops species distinguished primarily by structural and geographic characteristics.
The velvet lobsterette (Metanephrops velutinus) is a deepwater nephropsid crustacean named for the fine, velvety texture of its carapace surface, found in Indo-Pacific deepwater habitats.
Thymops birsteini is a rare deepwater clawed lobster found in the southern oceans, one of very few nephropsid species known from sub-Antarctic and Antarctic-adjacent waters.
Thymopides grobovi is a deepwater nephropsid lobster from the northeastern Atlantic, known from limited specimens and named in recognition of Soviet marine biologist contributions to deep-sea crustacean taxonomy.
