Animals / Crustacean

American lobster

Homarus americanus · Nephropidae

The American lobster is a species of lobster found on the Atlantic coast of North America, chiefly from Labrador to New Jersey. It is also known as Atlantic lobster, Canadian lobster, northern lobster, Canadian Reds, or Maine lobster. It is sometimes called the true lobster or common lobster, but those names are ambiguous.

Where the American lobster lives

Recorded in Canada and United States of America (North America).

Most records fall in Nunavut, Québec, Newfoundland and Labrador, Maine, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia.

See the American lobster’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Least concern (LC). Not at risk: it is doing well in the wild. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 887,420 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.