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