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On this European lobster, the right claw (on the left side of the image) is the crusher and the left claw is the cutter.. Homarus gammarus is a large crustacean, with a body length up to 60 centimetres (24 in) and weighing up to 5–6 kilograms (11–13 lb), although the lobsters caught in lobster pots are usually 23–38 cm (9–15 in) long and weigh 0.7–2.2 kg (1.5–4.9 lb). [3]
Life Cycle of a Lobster. Female Cornish Lobsters with eggs attached are protected from harvest, but although a female lobster can carry as many as twenty thousand eggs under her carapace, only one ...
Allogalathea elegans (known as the feather star squat lobster, crinoid squat lobster or elegant squat lobster) is a species of squat lobster that is sometimes kept in marine aquariums. Despite their common name, they are more closely related to hermit crabs than lobsters.
Malacostraca is the second largest of the six classes of pancrustaceans behind insects, containing about 40,000 living species, divided among 16 orders.Its members, the malacostracans, display a great diversity of body forms and include crabs, lobsters, spiny lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill, prawns, woodlice, amphipods, mantis shrimp, tongue-eating lice and many other less familiar animals.
Lobsters, like snails and spiders, have blue blood due to the presence of hemocyanin, which contains copper. [8] In contrast, vertebrates, and many other animals have red blood from iron-rich hemoglobin. Lobsters possess a green hepatopancreas, called the tomalley by chefs, which functions as the animal's liver and pancreas. [9]
G. squamifera is found from Norway to the Azores and in the Mediterranean Sea, [3] and is the most commonly found species of squat lobster on the shores of Northern Europe. [4] It lives between the low water mark and depths of about 70 metres (230 ft), [3] under stones and in rock fissures. [4]
Now, video of the rare lobster has gone viral on TikTok and Mr Knowles’ followers have even given the creature the new name Bowie – a homage to the late star David Bowie.
Squat lobsters are dorsoventrally flattened crustaceans with long tails held curled beneath the cephalothorax.They are found in the two superfamilies Galatheoidea and Chirostyloidea, which form part of the decapod infraorder Anomura, alongside groups including the hermit crabs and mole crabs.