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Homarus americanus   Milne-Edwards, 1837

American lobster

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Homarus americanus  AquaMaps  Data sources: GBIF OBIS
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Homarus americanus


United States (contiguous states) country information

Common names: [No common name]
Occurrence: native
Salinity: marine
Abundance: | Ref:
Importance: | Ref:
Aquaculture: never/rarely | Ref:
Regulations: no regulations | Ref:
Uses: no uses
Comments: Known from the northern Carolina region (Ref. 4). C: Refs. 4, 106894.
National Checklist:
Country Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html
National Fisheries Authority: http://www.nmfs.gov
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Holthuis, L.B., 1991
National Database:

Common names from other countries

Classification / Names / Names Namen | Synonyme | Catalog of Fishes (gen., sp.) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS

> Decapoda (Lobster, shrimp and crabs) > Nephropidae (clawed crabs)

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ökologie

; tiefenbereich 0 - 480 m (Ref. 4), usually 4 - 50 m (Ref. 4).   Temperate, preferred 6°C (Ref. 107945); 54°N - 35°N, 78°W - 52°W (Ref. 4)

Verbreitung Länder | FAO Gebiete | Ecosystems | Vorkommen | Einführungen

Northwest Atlantic and Western Atlantic.

Length at first maturity / Size / Gewicht / Alter

Maturity: Lm 8.8, range 7 - 9 cm Max length : 114 cm TL Männchen/unbestimmt; (Ref. 81053); common length : 25.0 cm TL Männchen/unbestimmt; (Ref. 4); max. veröff. Gewicht: 1.7 kg (Ref. 81053)

Biologie     Fachlexikon (Englisch) (z.B. epibenthic)

Benthic in coastal and shelf waters (Ref. 106894). Possibly a selective feeder, preying mainly on crabs, echinoderms, mussels and polychaetes but also ingesting algae and seaweeds, with a complex foraging behavior and thus capable of maintaining gross diet composition despite of sharp variations in prey availability, seasonality and ontogenetic changes, e.g., molt- and size-related diet shifts (Ref. 33024). Migration does not occur, or only to a limited scale (Ref. 4).

Life cycle and mating behavior Geschlechtsreife | Fortpflanzung | Ablaichen | Eier | Fecundity | Larven

The females carry their eggs for 10 to 11 months, ovigerous females are found throughout the year (Ref. 4). 0.5 broods per year (Ref. 81148); 0.15 cm postlarval size (Ref. 81158); 1 month pelagic period (Ref. 81159).

Hauptreferenz Referenzen | Koordinator | Partner

Holthuis, L.B. 1991. (Ref. 4)

IUCN Rote Liste Status (Ref. 130435)

  nicht bedroht (LC) ; Date assessed: 03 December 2009

CITES Status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Nutzung durch Menschen

Fischereien: hoch kommerziell
FAO - Fischereien: landings, Artbeschreibung | FishSource | Sea Around Us

Tools

Internet Quellen

BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Fischereien: Artbeschreibung; publication : search) | GenBank (Genom, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Tree of Life | Wikipedia (Gehe zu, Suchen) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Preferred temperature (Ref. 115969): 2.7 - 15.4, mean 10.2 (based on 112 cells).
Widerstandsfähigkeit (Ref. 69278) niedrig, Verdopplung der Population dauert 4,5 - 14 Jahre. (K=0.07-0.09; tm=5).
Prior r = 0.47, 95% CL = 0.31 - 0.71, Based on 2 full stock assessments.
Verwundbarkeit (Ref. 71543): Moderate to high vulnerability (46 of 100).
Preiskategorie (Ref. 80766): Very high.