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Lobsters awaiting purchase in Trenton, Maine. Lobsters are malacostracans of the family Nephropidae [1] or its synonym Homaridae. [2] They have long bodies with muscular tails and live in crevices or burrows on the sea floor. Three of their five pairs of legs have claws, including the first pair, which are usually much larger than the others.
In common with all spiny lobsters, the California spiny lobster has two large, spiny antennae, but no large claws on its legs. The California spiny lobster is one of the largest spiny lobster species, [4] and grows up to 60 centimeters (24 in) long, but does not usually exceed 30 cm (12 in). [3]
The following is a list of selected animals in order of increasing number of legs, from 0 legs to 653 pairs of legs, the maximum recorded in the animal kingdom. [1] Each entry provides the relevant taxa up to the rank of phylum. Each entry also provides the common name of the animal.
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 of these is ever ...
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, isopods, amphipods, mantis shrimp, and many other less familiar animals.
Since lobsters sometimes eat their own molted shell, they were thought to be cannibalistic, but this has never been recorded in the wild. [46] Lobsters in Maine have been shown to gain 35–55% of their calories from herring, which is used as bait for lobster traps. [47] Only 6% of lobsters entering lobster traps to feed are caught.
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]
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