Slipper lobster / Thenus orientalis / Flathead Lobster

     Taxonomy ( Scientific classification)

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Malacostraca

Order: Decapoda

Family: Scyllaridae

Genus: Thenus

Species: T. orientalis 

CHARACTERISTICS

      T. orientalis was like P. Cygnus, they don't have claws. T. orientalis carry a huge, disc-like appendages that seem to be a bit similar to flat mushroom caps. This type of physical appearance ensures they are easily identifiable in warm marine environments across the world. 

     This species have a horizontal perimeter of the carapace (the hard upper shell) with only the cervical incision. They have no teeth around the horizontal margin of the carapace, aside from the anterolateral (both anterior and lateral) and post - cervical. The highest entire body size approximately 25.0 cm; highest carapace size around 8 cm.

HABITAT AND LIFE SPAN

       T. orientalis had been distributed around Indo West Pacific, Northeastern of Africa (Red Sea to Natal) to China which includes the Southern Japan, Philippines, Persian Gulf and also across the northern coast of Australia from Western Australia to Queensland. Additionally, this species can be found in a small scale around Singapore and Malaysia. A life span for this species is still unknown. 

PREDATORS AND DIET

    T. orientalis will feed on hard shell mollusk’s crustaceans and algae. A diet for this species is omnivore where they will feed on plant and other small animals.

Rock lobster / Panulirus Cygnus

Taxonomy ( Scientific classification)

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Malacostraca

Order: Decapoda

Family: Palinuridae

Genus: Panulirus

Species: P. Cygnus

CHARACTERISTICS

     P. cygnus have a 6 pairs of tiny limbs all around the mouth area plus 5 pairs of walking legs, a compound eyes on their mobile stalks and antennae.The part of antennulae and legs is even in color along with light lines. They have a muscular and strong mid-section with an external skeleton part which is segmented on their backside.

   They have swimmerets (a single of the paired abdominal appendages which are useful for swimming as well as in adult females to carry an eggs) below the tail with end in their part of tail. Their body color is light to dark purple brown and pale spots around the abdominal areas.

HABITAT AND LIFE SPAN

    P. cygnus can be discovered across the worlds in marine environments such as European coasts, within the Mediterranean, Africa, Australia, South America, and specifically between Japan and also South Pacific.

    The length of time P. Cygnus will be able to survive is still unknown because there is no procedure for measuring their life span precisely. In spite of this, it is belief that they could possibly be capable to live for a hundred years, however , the normal age is approximately 30 years. 

PREDATORS AND DIETS

   The biggest predator of P. cygnus is a human beings and also snapper (fish), octopus, sharks and jewfish ( jewfish is a term that has been used for a number of fish species). A self protection of P. cygnus is they will stay away from being catch by their own marine potential predators through creating a shocking humming sounds and also self amputating a limb. A arm or leg occupies the predator and they will be able to make their escape. A diet for this species is omnivore where they will feed on plant and another types of animals. 

Crayfish / Cambarus bartonii / Common crayfish / Appalachian Brook Crayfish

Taxonomy ( Scientific classification)

Kingdom: Animalia 

Phylum: Arthropods 

Class: Crustacean 

Order: Decapods 

Family: Cambaridae 

Genus: Cambarus 

Species: C. Bartonii

CHARACTERISTICS

       C. Bartonii have smaller to medium sized crayfish ,marginally inward shaped claws and typically smooth body . A characteristic which can differentiates this species from other identical lobster species is the part of a smaller rostrum (the triangular shape section of the shell between the eyes). The color of C. Bartonii is orange-brown, despite the fact that blue morphs have been discovered for this species.

HABITAT AND LIFE SPAN

    Compared with an another species of lobster, crayfish dwell altogether within fresh water environments, such as streams, rivers and also ponds. What's more, members of this species ; at least one of its five-hundred identified types can be found in almost every region in the world. C. bartonii life span is 3 to 4 years.

PREDATORS AND DIETS

     C. bartonii is a predator as well as a scavenger. They feed on rotting natural and organic remains and also captures a tiny creatures. The primary sources of foodstuff may include snails, algae, bug larva, a various kinds of worms and tadpoles. C. bartonii finds out their foodstuff on the base in the waters origin where they lives in or perhaps in a dirt close to the waters. 

     A primary diet for C. bartonii is omnivore where they feed on both plant and animal origin. They will feed on amphibians eggs (a cold blooded vertebrate animal), mollusks ( an invertebrate of large phylum such as snails, octopuses, slugs, mussels), aquatic or marine worms and aquatic crustaceans (an arthropod of the large, mainly group of Crustacea such as a crab, shrimp and lobster). They also feed on algae and detritus (organic matter resulting from the decomposition of microorganisms).

Norway lobster / Nephrops norvegicus / Dublin Bay prawn/ Langoustine/ Scampi

   Taxonomy (Scientific classification)

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Family: Nephropidae
Genus: Nephrops
Species: N. norvegicus

CHARACTERISTICS

      A color of N. norvegicus is a lighter orange and this species will grows up to a common size from 18 cm to 20 cm [just have a little bit of lobster meat :( ], or exceedingly 25 cm long, which is including the tail and claws. The hard upper shell covers the N. norvegicus's cephalothorax (the merged head and thorax of an arthropods), although the abdominal area is long and divided into segments, ending from a large tail fan. 

      The first 3 pairs of legs attach a claws, which the first are significantly pointed and bear side rails of spines. N. norvegicus have 2 pairs of antenna (a pair of long, thin sensory appendages on the heads of an arthropods), the second is the longer and thin. There is a long, spinous rostrum ( a beaklike projection, especially a stiff nose or anterior prolongation of the head in an arthropods), and the compound eyes (kidney-shaped).

HABITAT AND LIFE SPAN

      N. norvegicus are generally small and a bit sensitive. This type of lobster species have a claws which is have length like their body part. Approximately, 17 types of scampi species are existing all over the world where they live and inhabits in waters such as the eastern coastline bridging North and South America, Europe oceans , Western African coastline, Western edges of Australia and Southeast Asia during a lobster season. They could be have a potentially to live for 5 to years and in exceptional cases they could live almost 5 years.

PREDATORS AND DIET

       N. norvegicus spending a lots of their time in burrows / holes and they only coming out to find a food and seek out a mate. They are an opportunistic predators ( they take instantaneous advantages of any kind of situation that benefits them. 

      As a predator, they capture, prey and attack however being opportunistic and also they scavenge because it is easier than hunting), mostly feeding on crustaceans (an arthropod from the large,mostly marine group Crustacea, for example a crab, lobster, shrimp), mollusks ( octopuses, snails, slugs, mussels) and polychaete worms. N. norvegicus is a scavenger and predator that makes small foraging activities,mostly during a night. 

      They will feed on active prey, including fish and worms, which they capture with their chelipeds (1 of the pair of legs that has the large chelae in decapod crustaceans) and walking legs, and food is conveyed to the mouth with the front walking legs, assisted by the maxillipeds (an appendage modified for feeding, situated in pairs behind the maxillae).

European lobster / Homarus gammarus

 Taxonomy (Scientific classification)

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Malacostraca

Order: Decapoda

Family: Nephropidae

Genus: Homarus

Species: H. gammarus

    

CHARACTERISTICS 

     Measurement of H. gammarus is 60 cm in length and weighed 6 kilograms of lobster meat and has a clearly visible a pair of claws. Lobster develop in total length by shedding off their own hard external skeleton ( rigid external covering for the body) , a progression described as moulting. After they shed off their hard external skeleton, the body tissues will absorbed a water which can cause a lobster swelling and burst their external skeleton. After it has been separated by itself, further more swelling appears and a newer external skeleton gets started in order to turn solid form. 

HABITAT AND LIFE SPAN

      H. gammarus (European lobster) , closest related and also practically similar to the biggest lobster of H. americanus (American lobster) , resides in the oceans within the north-eastern of Atlantic. European lobsters are found from Norway to Morocco,within the North Ocean, in the western and also central regions of the Mediterranean sea, and in western places within the Black Sea during a lobster season.

     Compared with the American lobster, in which generally identified for displaying off reddish and reddish-brown colours, the European lobster often is known as appearing quite blue in color. H. gammarus could be potentially live over a less or more of 15 years.

PREDATORS AND DIET

      Young lobsters tend to be hunt and kill for food upon by a large number of fish and mainly aquatic group Crustacea such as a large marine fish (cod), wrasse, snakelike fish, flatfish, shore crabs ,bigger lobsters and brown crabs. Adult lobsters are incredibly belonging to the most significant ocean invertebrates and are an unlikely prey for the majority of ocean creatures due to their sheltering ,nocturnal behavior and preventive claws. 

      Apparently, investigation indicates that the measurement of the lobster’s claws is imbalance to the size of their prey and that instead of being adapted for forage or predator protection, they might be more related to produced, occurring, or existing within a species competition for shelter, food, mates and also as any notice indication of power . A diet for H. gammarus including a smaller lobsters, crabs and larger mollusks.

About lobster

  Generally lobster is a 10 legged arthropod and close species to crabs and shrimps. There're an aquatic organism which is stay in each and every sea across the world, and also within salty away from the sea areas,such as wetlands and fresh water environments. The biggest lobster had been caught on 1926 in Maine. The fact is, there are actually lots of types of lobsters which can be found in several of shapes, colors, lengths and widths, and also anatomical structures.

  There is a few types of lobster that you can caught following to the lobster season. For your information, it is actually much easier to catch lobsters during the summer season because lobsters stick to the water temperatures. Other than that, in month of May is usually among the best month of the season to purchase a live lobsters because the lobster meat are likely to be meatiest and firmest right after the winter weather seasons.

TYPES OF LOBSTERS

 American lobster / Homarus americanus

Taxonomy (Scientific classification)

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum : Arthropoda

Class : Crustacea

Order : Decapoda

Family : Nephropidae

Genus : Homarus

Species : H. americanus

CHARACTERISTICS

   H. americanus was measured around 20 to 60 cm in length and 0.50 kg to 4.10 kg in weight, but had been discovered to be able to reach lengths of 64.0 cm and weighing approximately 20.0 kg or even more, thus, making this the biggest lobster on this planet. The average adult H. americanus is around 23.0 cm in length and has a weight of 700 to 900 grams.

  This kind of lobster are usually recognized because of their sturdy and juicy claws: 1 big claw, having a lot of crags used to be able to break a shells, and then a smaller sized, saw-like claw useful to grab, tear, and also carry the meats within its prey.

HABITAT AND LIFE SPAN

    H. americanus range begins within the northern most tip of Canada's East Coast all the way up to the south, approximately 1300 kilometers, to the oceans of N . C .Even so, the lobster is a large number in the oceans away from the seaside in Maine.

  Lobsters like to make their own dwellings in rocky places in which they will hide out within the holes away from possible predators. However, small lobsters which have just settled on the bottom part might not be able to discover material which consisting of gravel so that they can dig in a small stone which is made from smooth and round by the action of water or sand.

  In the 1st a couple of years of a lobster’s life dwelling is where the hiding place is. A small lobster which has just settled on the bottom part need to hide away so they won't be eaten by possible predators, but adult lobsters which are bigger and much better equipped for the purpose of defending on their own self. A life span for this species is 60 years or more. There is no exactly scientific proven how long H. americanus can live in oceans.

PREDATORS AND DIETS

    H. americanus predators mostly a big fishes and lobsters (big-size), walrus and a major predator is a human beings. A diets for this species including a crabs, fishes, shells, bivalve mollusks, sea hedgehogs and starfish