A lobster is a clawed marine crustacean in the family Nephropidae/Homaridae, the "true lobsters", which includes both the large species commonly called lobsters in commerce and small species often called scampi.

The best-known true lobsters are:

Genus Homarus, including the European and American lobsters Species H. gammarus, the European lobster or common lobster Species H. americanus, the American/Atlantic/Canadian/northern/Maine lobster Genus Nephrops Species N. norvegicus, the Norway lobster, langoustine, Dublin Bay prawn or scampi Other Nephropidae called lobsters Homarinus capensis (Herbst, 1792) – Cape lobster Metanephrops spp. M. andamanicus (Wood-Mason, 1892) – Andaman lobster M. binghami (Boone, 1927) – Caribbean lobster M. boschmai (Holthuis, 1964) – Bight lobster M. japonicus (Tapparone-Canefri, 1873) – Japanese lobster M. sinensis (Bruce, 1966) – China lobster

Lobster may also refer to:

Other crustaceans Furry lobster Slipper lobster Spiny lobster or rock lobster, found worldwide Squat lobster Crayfish, also known as freshwater lobster, mountain lobster, rock lobster Astacopsis gouldi, the Tasmanian giant freshwater lobster or crayfish

Entertainment Lobster (novel), an erotic novel by Guillaume Lecasble The Lobster, a 2015 science fiction movie Lobsters (film), a 1936 British documentary Lobster (magazine), a British parapolitics publication Lobster Johnson, a Dark Horse Comics character who appears in Hellboy and his own series Lobster Random, a 2000 AD character "Lobsters", a short story by Charles Stross, subsequently incorporated into his novel Accelerando

Other uses Lobster emoji, a character in Unicode that represents the crustacean Lobster clasp, a type of jewelry fastener Lobster mushroom, an edible North American mushroom resembling lobster meat Lobster graph in graph theory A historical derogatory term for British soldiers Lobster Lake, a lake in Minnesota LOBSTER, a network monitoring system Australian twenty-dollar note, as a slang term Red Lobster (disambiguation)

See also

Lobsterette, various small species in the Nephropidae/Homaridae family