Lobster (disambiguation)

A lobster is a clawed marine crustacean in the family Nephropidae/Homaridae, the "true lobsters", which includes both the large species commonly called lobsters in commerce and small species often called scampi.

The best-known true lobsters are:

• Genus Homarus, including the European and American lobsters
  • Species H. gammarus, the European lobster or common lobster
  • Species H. americanus, the American/Atlantic/Canadian/northern/Maine lobster
• Genus Nephrops
  • Species N. norvegicus, the Norway lobster, langoustine, Dublin Bay prawn or scampi
• Other Nephropidae called lobsters
  • Homarinus capensis (Herbst, 1792) – Cape lobster
  • Metanephrops spp.
    • M. andamanicus (Wood-Mason, 1892) – Andaman lobster
    • M. binghami (Boone, 1927) – Caribbean lobster
    • M. boschmai (Holthuis, 1964) – Bight lobster
    • M. japonicus (Tapparone-Canefri, 1873) – Japanese lobster
    • M. sinensis (Bruce, 1966) – China lobster

Lobster may also refer to:

Other crustaceans

• Furry lobster
• Slipper lobster
• Spiny lobster or rock lobster, found worldwide
• Squat lobster
• Crayfish, also known as freshwater lobster, mountain lobster, rock lobster
  • Astacopsis gouldi, the Tasmanian giant freshwater lobster or crayfish

Entertainment

• Lobster (novel), an erotic novel by Guillaume Lecasble
• The Lobster, a 2015 science fiction movie
• Lobsters (film), a 1936 British documentary
• Lobster (magazine), a British parapolitics publication
• Lobster Johnson, a Dark Horse Comics character who appears in Hellboy and his own series
• Lobster Random, a 2000 AD character
• "Lobsters", a short story by Charles Stross, subsequently incorporated into his novel Accelerando

Other uses

• Lobster emoji, a character in Unicode that represents the crustacean
• Lobster clasp, a type of jewelry fastener
• Lobster mushroom, an edible North American mushroom resembling lobster meat
• Lobster graph in graph theory
• A historical derogatory term for British soldiers
• Lobster Lake, a lake in Minnesota
• LOBSTER, a network monitoring system
• Australian twenty-dollar note, as a slang term
• Red Lobster (disambiguation)

See also

• Lobsterette, various small species in the Nephropidae/Homaridae family