Metanephrops is a genus of lobsters, commonly known as scampi. Important species for fishery include Metanephrops australiensis (Australian scampi) and Metanephrops challengeri (New Zealand scampi). It differs from other lobsters such as Homarus and Nephrops norvegicus in that its two main claws are of equal size, rather than being differentiated into a crusher and a pincher.[1] There are 18 extant species recognised in the genus:[2]
Metanephrops andamanicus (Wood-Mason, 1891)
Metanephrops arafurensis (De Man, 1905)
Metanephrops armatus Chan & Yu, 1991
Metanephrops australiensis (Bruce, 1966)
Metanephrops binghami (Boone, 1927)
Metanephrops boschmai (Holthuis, 1964)
Metanephrops challengeri (Balss, 1914)
Metanephrops formosanus Chan & Yu, 1987
Metanephrops japonicus (Tapparone-Canefri, 1873)
Metanephrops mozambicus Macpherson, 1990
Metanephrops neptunus (Bruce, 1965)
Metanephrops rubellus (Moreira, 1903)
Metanephrops sagamiensis (Parisi, 1917)
Metanephrops sibogae (De Man, 1916)
Metanephrops sinensis (Bruce, 1966)
Metanephrops taiwanicus (Hu, 1983)
Metanephrops thomsoni (Bate, 1888)
Metanephrops velutinus Chan & Yu, 1991
A further three species are known from fossils:[3][4]
Metanephrops jenkinsi Feldmann, 1989 – Late Cretaceous
Metanephrops rossensis Feldmann et al., 1993 – Late Cretaceous
^Lipke Holthuis (1991). FAO species catalogue Vol. 13: Marine lobsters of the world. FAO.
^Tin-Yam Chan (2010). "Metanephrops Jenkins, 1972". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved October 17, 2010.
^Sammy De Grave; N. Dean Pentcheff; Shane T. Ahyong; et al. (2009). "A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans" (PDF). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Suppl. 21: 1–109. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-06.
^Dale Tshudy, Tin-Yam Chan & Ulf Sorhannus (2007). "Morphology-based clasdistic analysis of Metanephrops: the most diverse extant genus of clawed lobster (Nephropidae)". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 27 (3): 463–476. doi:10.1651/S-2777.1.
Metanephrops is a genus of lobsters, commonly known as scampi. Important species for fishery include Metanephrops australiensis (Australian scampi) and...
shape of the animal's compound eye. Although the species in the genus Metanephrops were previously included in Nephrops, molecular phylogenetics suggests...
was moved in 1972 to a new genus, Metanephrops, along with most other species then classified in Nephrops. Metanephrops challengeri is a slender lobster...
"Metanephrops japonicus (Tapparone-Canefri, 1873)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 24 July 2017. Lipke B. Holthuis (1991). "Metanephrops japonicus"...
(2009). "Metanephrops binghami (Boone, 1927)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 24 June 2017. Lipke B. Holthuis (1991). "Metanephrops binghami"...
Metanephrops mozambicus (commonly known as the African lobster) is a species of lobster that lives around south-east of Madagascar. Previously considered...
media related to Metanephrops australiensis. Wahle, R.; Butler, M.; Chan, T.Y.; Cockcroft, A.; MacDiarmid, A. (2011). "Metanephrops australiensis". IUCN...
after several other species were moved to the closely related genus Metanephrops. It lives in the north-eastern Atlantic Ocean, and parts of the Mediterranean...
(2009). "Metanephrops boschmai (Holthuis, 1964)". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 24 July 2017. Lipke B. Holthuis (1991). "Metanephrops boschmai"...
edwardsii, and 1,291,000 kg (2,846,000 lb) for the New Zealand scampi, Metanephrops challengeri, were in place in 2011. Recreational fishers may only gather...
(Cyclura pinguis) and several species of turtles. Conch, Caribbean lobster (Metanephrops binghami), and many species of fishes can be found near Anegada, particularly...
one "crusher" and one "cutter" claw. It differs from others, such as Metanephrops and Eunephrops by the lack of a carina behind the antennal spine, by...
crabs and the first appearance of the lobsters of the genera Linuparus, Metanephrops, and Munidopsis which still inhabit Antarctica today. In the Cretaceous...
lobsters of the family Nephropidae (Homarus gammarus and species of Metanephrops). The body of Nicothoe tumulosa is up to 1.24 millimetres (0.049 in)...
species of reptile (Cryptophis boschmai and Draco boschmai), a lobster (Metanephrops boschmai), and a fish (Lophichthys boschmai). L.B.H. (1977). "Obituary:...
Douglas M. Neil (2011). Grant Stentiford (ed.). "Diseases of Nephrops and Metanephrops: a review". Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. 106 (1): 92–109. doi:10...
Tshudy, D.; Chan, T.-Y.; Ćorić, S. (2021). "A new deep-water lobster, Metanephrops serendipitus sp. nov. (Crustacea, Decapoda, Nephropidae), from lower...
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