American Lobster
Homarus americanus
Animalia
UNCOMMON
Stats
- Lifespan
- Up to 100 yrs
- Size
- Huge
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Activity
- Nocturnal
- Social
- Solitary
- Biome
- Temperate ocean
- Range
- North America
- Movement
- Walking
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Armor
- Status
- Uncommon
About
A large, cold-water clawed lobster of the northwest Atlantic, distinguished from its European cousin by a single ventral spine on the rostrum. Live individuals are usually dark greenish-brown to navy blue and only turn the iconic bright red after cooking, when heat denatures the crustacyanin protein masking the underlying red pigment.
Life cycle
- 1.juvenileA juvenile crustacean takes adult form after its larval phase, growing in stages between molts.
- 2.adultFully grown at adult size and full hard shell.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Nephropidae
- Genus
- Homarus
- Species
- Homarus americanus