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Description

Homarus is a genus of lobsters, which include the common and commercially significant species Homarus americanus (the American lobster) and Homarus gammarus (the European lobster). The Cape lobster, which was formerly in this genus as H. capensis, was moved in 1995 to the new genus Homarinus.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homarus, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	5972002	https://www.gbif.org/species/5972002
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	22480	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=22480

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Malacostraca : Decapoda : Nephropidae : Homarus

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

doubtful

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
-	Pancrustacea
subphylum	Crustacea	Brünnich 1772
class	Malacostraca	Latreille 1802
superorder	Eucarida	Calman 1904
order	Decapoda	Latreille 1802
infraorder	Astacidea	Latreille 1802
superfamily	Nephropoidea	Dana 1852
family	Nephropidae	Dana 1852
genus	Homarus	Weber 1795

Scientific Name

Homarus Weber, 1795

Name Published In

Weber, Friedrich. 1795. Nomenclator entomologicus secundum entomologiam systematicam ill. Fabricii. C. E. Bohn, Chilonii et Hamburgi.: i-viii; 1-171;.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Homarus	genus	belongs to Nephropidae	stated with evidence	Tshudy and Sorhannus, 2000
Homarus	genus	belongs to Nephropidae	stated without evidence	Schweitzer et al., 2010

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (18%)

First Recorded Appearance

133 - 129 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Motility

actively mobile (based on Malacostraca)

Vision

well-developed (based on Malacostraca)

Diet

carnivore (based on Decapoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Malacostraca)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homarus

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Homarus americanus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Homarus brittonestris ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Homarus davisi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Homarus gammarus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Homarus hakelensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	145 Ma Late Jurassic	145 Ma Late Jurassic
Homarus lehmanni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Homarus mickelsoni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Homarus morrisi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	56.0 Ma Paleocene	56.0 Ma Paleocene
Homarus neptunianus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Homarus travisensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	109 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	109 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Homarus vulgaris ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Homeris	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Arthropoda : Malacostraca : Decapoda : Nephropidae : *Homeris*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1795	Homarus Weber
2000	Homarus Tshudy and Sorhannus p. 227
2010	Homarus Schweitzer et al.

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Tshudy D., Sorhannus U. (2000) Jagtia kunradensis, a new genus and species of clawed lobster (Decapoda: Nephropidae) from the Upper Cretaceous (Upper Maastrichtian) Maastricht Formation, the Netherlands, Journal of Paleontology 74 2, 224-229

Schweitzer C. E., Feldmann R. M., et al (2010) Systematic list of fossil decapod crustacean species, Crustaceana Monographs 10, 1-222

Williams, Austin B., 1984: null. Shrimps, Lobsters, and Crabs of the Atlantic Coast of the Eastern United States, Maine to Florida. xviii + 550. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

WoRMS Editorial Board (2019) World Register of Marine Species - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

Holthuis, L. B., 1991: Marine Lobsters of the World: An Annotated and Illustrated Catalogue of Species of Interest to Fisheries Known to Date. FAO Fisheries Synopsis, no. 125, vol. 13. viii + 292. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Anna Karlsson (Decapoda) (2004) [Titel saknas] - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. - via World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

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. - via World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 104 57 generic names placed in the Official List.Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 73(5), 25-28 (1928) - via Official Lists and Indexes of Names in Zoology

Türkay, M. (2001). Decapoda, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 284-292 - via World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

Weber, F. (1795). Nomenclator entomologicus secundum Entomologiam systematicum ill. Fabricii adjectis speciebus recens detectis et varietatibus. i-viii, 1-171. Chilonii et Hamburgii. - via World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

De Grave, S., Pentcheff, N.D., Ahyong, S.T., Chan, T.-Y., Crandall, K.A., Dworschak, P.C., Felder, D.L., Feldmann, R.M., Fransen, C.H.J.M., Goulding, L.Y.D., Lemaitre, R., Low, M.E.Y., Martin, J.W., Ng, P.K.L., Schweitzer, C.E., Tan, S.H., Tshudy, D. & Wetzer, R. (2009). A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. supplement 21: 1-109. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomen. Fabricii - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Abele & Felgenhauer, 1982 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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