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Nephrops norvegicus has the typical body shape of a lobster, albeit narrower than the large Homarus species.
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Nephrops and norvegicus
Symbion was discovered in 1995 by Reinhardt Kristensen and Peter Funch on the mouthparts of the Norway lobster ( Nephrops norvegicus ), and other, related, species have since been discovered on:
Different species of Symbion have been found on the three commercially important lobsters of the north Atlantic Ocean – Nephrops norvegicus, Homarus gammarus and Homarus americanus.
:* Nephrops norvegicus – Norway lobster, Dublin Bay prawn, langoustine
Nephrops norvegicus
Scampi is a culinary name for a kind of small lobster, also known as Nephrops norvegicus, Norway lobster, Dublin Bay prawn, langoustine or, to avoid ambiguity, " true scampi ".
Scampi is the Italian plural of scampo ' Nephrops norvegicus, but is usually construed as both a singular and plural in English.
The three clawed lobster species Homarus gammarus, H. americanus and Nephrops norvegicus are hosts to the three known species of the animal phylum Cycliophora ; the species on H. gammarus has not been described.
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Trawling is the main method used for the Norway lobster or Dublin Bay prawn, Nephrops norvegicus, and for those slipper lobsters that prefer soft substrates, such as Thenus and Ibacus.
Nephrops norvegicus, known variously as the Norway lobster, Dublin Bay prawn, ( compare langostino ) or scampi, is a slim, orange-pink lobster which grows up to long, and is " the most important commercial crustacean in Europe ".
Nephrops norvegicus is found in the north-eastern Atlantic Ocean and North Sea as far north as Iceland and northern Norway, and south to Portugal.
Nephrops norvegicus adults prefer to inhabit muddy seabed sediments, with more than 40 percent silt and clay.
Nephrops norvegicus is a scavenger and predator that makes short foraging excursions, mainly during periods of subdued light.
Nephrops norvegicus is the host to a number of parasites and symbionts.
A number of sessile organisms attach to the exoskeleton of N. norvegicus, including the barnacle Balanus crenatus and the foraminiferan Cyclogyra, but overall Nephrops suffers fewer infestations of such epibionts than other decapod crustaceans do.
In December 1995, the commensal Symbion pandora was discovered attached to the mouthparts of Nephrops norvegicus, and was found to be the first member of a new phylum, Cycliophora, a finding described by Simon Conway Morris as " the zoological highlight of the decade ".
Adult male Nephrops norvegicus moult once or twice a year ( usually in late winter or spring ) and adult females moult up to once a year ( in late winter or spring, after hatching of the eggs ).
Freshly caught Nephrops norvegicus in Scotland
The muscular tail of Nephrops norvegicus is frequently eaten, and its meat is known as scampi.
Nephrops norvegicus was one of the species included by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of, the starting point for zoological nomenclature.
Populations in the Mediterranean Sea are sometimes separated as " Nephrops norvegicus var.
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Nephrops and lobster
Nephrops is a genus of lobsters comprising a single extant species, Nephrops norvegicus ( the Norway lobster or Dublin Bay prawn ), and several fossil species.
Stichocotylidae is a monospecific family of flatworms comprising the single species Stichocotyle nephropis, which is an internal parasite of elasmobranch fish, originally described from the Norway lobster, Nephrops norvegicus, by J. T. Cunningham in 1884.
Nephrops and than
Although the species in the genus Metanephrops were previously included in Nephrops, molecular phylogenetics suggests that the two genera are not sister taxa, Nephrops being more closely related to Homarus than either is to Metanephrops.
Nephrops and Homarus
Commercially important species include two species of Homarus from the northern Atlantic Ocean, and scampi – the northern-hemisphere genus Nephrops and the southern-hemisphere genus Metanephrops.
The closest living relative of Homarus is Nephrops norvegicus, while the closest relatives of Homarinus are Thymops and Thymopides.
Nephrops and species
It is now the only extant species in the genus Nephrops, after several other species were moved to the closely related genus Metanephrops.
Boats involved in Nephrops fishery also catch a number of fish species such as plaice and sole, and it is thought that without that revenue, Nephrops fishery would be economically unviable.
As new genera were erected, the species was moved, reaching its current position in 1814, when William Elford Leach erected the genus Nephrops to hold this species alone.
Most of the fossil species assigned to the genus Nephrops are known only from partial remains, and their affinities are not certain.
Although originally classified in the genus Nephrops, it was moved in 1972 to a new genus, Metanephrops, along with most other species then classified in Nephrops.
The larvae hatch at the zoea stage ( equivalent to the third zoea of the Northern Hemisphere species Nephrops norvegicus ).
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Discards from Nephrops fishery may account for up to 37 % of the energy requirements of certain marine scavengers, such as the hagfish Myxine glutinosa.
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Much of the genome of Rattus norvegicus has been sequenced.
Selective breeding of Rattus norvegicus has produced the laboratory rat, an important model organism in biological research, as well as pet rats.
Due to its ecological demands for particular sediments, N. norvegicus has a very patchy distribution, and is divided into over 30 populations.
S. pandora has been found in many populations of N. norvegicus, both in the north Atlantic and in the Mediterranean Sea.
The most significant parasite of N. norvegicus is a dinoflagellate of the genus Hematodinium, which has caused epidemic infection in fished populations of N. norvegicus since the 1980s.
Much of the genome of Rattus norvegicus has been sequenced.
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