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62 Species in Family Nephropidae
Nominal species list for Nephropidae
Scientific Name Author English Name
Acanthacaris caeca (Milne-Edwards, 1881) Atlantic deep lobster
Acanthacaris tenuimana Bate, 1888 Prickly deep-sea lobster
Dinochelus ausubeli Ahyong, Chan & Bouchet, 2010
Eunephrops bairdii Smith, 1885 Red lobster
Eunephrops cadenasi Chace, 1939 Sculptured lobster
Eunephrops luckhursti Manning, 1997
Eunephrops manningi Holthuis, 1974 Banded lobster
Homarinus capensis (Herbst, 1792) Cape lobster
Homarus americanus Milne-Edwards, 1837 American lobster
Homarus gammarus (Linnaeus, 1758) European lobster
Metanephrops andamanicus (Wood-Mason, 1891) Andaman lobster
Metanephrops arafurensis (De Man, 1905) Arafura lobster
Metanephrops armatus Chan & Yu, 1991 Armoured lobster
Metanephrops australiensis (Bruce, 1966) Northwest lobster
Metanephrops binghami (Boone, 1927) Caribbean lobster
Metanephrops boschmai (Holthuis, 1964) Bight lobster
Metanephrops challengeri (Balss, 1914) New Zealand lobster
Metanephrops formosanus Chan & Yu, 1987 Formosa lobster
Metanephrops japonicus (Tapparone-Canefri, 1873) Japanese lobster
Metanephrops mozambicus Macpherson, 1990 African lobster
Metanephrops neptunus (Bruce, 1965) Neptune lobster
Metanephrops rubellus (Moreira, 1903) Urugavian lobster
Metanephrops sagamiensis (Parisi, 1917) Sculpted lobster
Metanephrops sibogae (De Man, 1916) Siboga lobster
Metanephrops sinensis (Bruce, 1966) China lobster
Metanephrops taiwanicus (Hu, 1983)
Metanephrops thomsoni (Bate, 1888) Red-banded lobster
Metanephrops velutinus Chan & Yu, 1991 Velvet lobster
Nephropides caribaeus Manning, 1969 Mitten lobsterette
Nephrops japonicus Tapparone Canefri, 1873
Nephrops norvegicus (Linnaeus, 1758) Norway lobster
Nephrops thompsoni (Bate, 1888)
Nephropsis acanthura Macpherson, 1990 Spinetail lobsterette
Nephropsis aculeata Smith, 1881 Florida lobsterette
Nephropsis agassizii Milne-Edwards, 1880 Prickly lobsterette
Nephropsis atlantica Norman, 1882 Scarlet lobsterette
Nephropsis carpenteri Wood-Mason, 1885 Ridge-back lobsterette
Nephropsis ensirostris Alcock, 1901 Gladiator lobsterette
Nephropsis grandis Zarenkov, 2006
Nephropsis holthuisi Macpherson, 1993
Nephropsis malhaensis Borradaile, 1910 Saya de malha lobsterette
Nephropsis neglecta Holthuis, 1974 Ruby lobsterette
Nephropsis occidentalis Faxon, 1893 Pacific lobsterette
Nephropsis pygmaea Chang, Chan & Kumar, 2020
Nephropsis rosea Bate, 1888 Two-toned lobsterette
Nephropsis serrata Macpherson, 1993
Nephropsis stewarti Wood-Mason, 1872 Indian Ocean lobsterette
Nephropsis suhmi Bate, 1888 Red and white lobsterette
Nephropsis sulcata Macpherson, 1990 Grooved lobsterette
Thaumastocheles bipristis Chang, Chan & Ahyong, 2014
Thaumastocheles dochmiodon Chan & Saint Laurent, 1999
Thaumastocheles japonicus Calman, 1913 Pacific pincer lobster
Thaumastocheles massonktenos Chang, Chan & Ahyong, 2014
Thaumastocheles zaleucus (Thomson, 1873) Atlantic pincer lobster
Thaumastochelopsis brucei Ahyong, Chu & Chan, 2007
Thaumastochelopsis wardi Bruce, 1988 Australian pincer lobster
Thymopides grobovi (Burukovsky & Averin, 1976) Bellator lobster
Thymopides Iaurentae Segonzac & Macpherson, 2004
Thymopides laurentae Segonzac & Macpherson, 2003
Thymops birsteini (Zarenkov & Semenov, 1972) Patagonian lobsterette
Thymops takedai Ahyong, Webber & Chan, 2012
Thymopsis nilenta Holthuis, 1974 Nilenta lobsterette
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