Lobster

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Introduction1

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Dictionary

lobster : any of a family (Nephropidae and especially Homarus americanus) of large edible marine decapod crustaceans that have stalked eyes, a pair of large claws, and a long abdomen and that include species from coasts on both sides of the North Atlantic and from the Cape of Good Hope — Merriam-Webster   See also   OneLook

Encyclopedia

Lobster comprise a family (Nephropidae, sometimes also Homaridae) of large marine crustaceans. 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. Although several other groups of crustaceans have the word “lobster” in their names, the unqualified term “lobster” generally refers to the clawed lobsters of the family Nephropidae. Clawed lobsters are not closely related to spiny lobsters or slipper lobsters, which have no claws (chelae), or to squat lobsters. The closest living relatives of clawed lobsters are the reef lobsters and the three families of freshwater crayfish. — Wikipedia

Lobster (Encyclopædia Britannica)

Lobsters (One Zoom)
Lobster (WolframAlpha)

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Inspiration

Articles about Lobsters (Big Think)

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Innovation

Science

Carcinology is a branch of zoology that consists of the study of crustaceans, a group of arthropods that includes lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill, copepods, barnacles and crabs. Other names for carcinology are malacostracology, crustaceology, and crustalogy. — Wikipedia

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Preservation

Library

DDC: 595.36 Lobster (Library Thing)
Subject: Lobster (Library Thing)

Subject: Lobster (Open Library)

LCC: QL 441.F57 Lobster (UPenn Online Books)
Subject: Lobster (UPenn Online Books)

LCC: QL 441.F57 Lobster (Library of Congress)
Subject: Lobster (Library of Congress)

Subject: Lobster (WorldCat)

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Participation

Education

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Community

Occupation

Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists (CareerOneStop, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration)
Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists (Occupational Outlook Handbook, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
Zoo Careers (SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment)

Organization

Crustacean Society

News

Crustaceana: International Journal of Crustacean Research
Journal of Crustacean Biology

Lobsters (EurekaAlert, American Association for the Advancement of Science)
Lobsters (bioRxiv: Preprint Server for Biology, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Lobster (JSTOR)
Lobsters (Science Daily)
Lobsters (Science News)
Lobsters (Phys.org)
Lobsters (NPR Archives)

Government

Lobster FAQs (Northeast Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries)

Document

Lobster (USA.gov)

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