Family of large marine CRUSTACEA, in the order DECAPODA. These are called clawed lobsters because they bear pincers on the first three pairs of legs. The American lobster and Cape lobster in the genus Homarus are commonly used for food.

Annotation

as animal & food; unspecified lobster as food probably goes here and is coord IM with SHELLFISH (IM)

DUI

D008121 MeSH Browser

CUI

M0012664

Previous indexing

Crustacea (1966-1971)

History note

2003 (1972)

Public note

2003; see LOBSTERS 1972-2002