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* Homarinus
:* Homarinus capensis – Cape lobster
The Cape lobster, Homarinus capensis, is a species of small lobster that lives off the coast of South Africa, from Dassen Island to Haga Haga.
The species grows to a total length of, and resembles a small European or American lobster ; it was previously included in the same genus, Homarus, although it is not very closely related to those species, and is now considered to form a separate, monotypic genus – Homarinus.
Homarinus capensis is considerably smaller than the large northern lobsters of the Atlantic Ocean, Homarus gammarus ( the European lobster ) and Homarus americanus ( the American lobster ), at total length, or carapace length.
Homarinus and Homarus are considered to be the most plesiomorphic genera in the family Nephropidae.
The three pairs of claws are covered with hairs in Homarinus, while those of Homarus are hairless.
The telson tapers along its length in Homarus, but has sides which are nearly parallel in Homarinus.
This is thought to indicate that Homarinus bears fewer, larger eggs than Homarus, and that either the larvae develop quickly into juveniles after hatching, or that the eggs hatch directly into juveniles.
The species reached its current classification in 1995, when the monotypic genus Homarinus was erected by Irv Kornfield, Austin B. Williams and Robert S. Steneck.
While analyses of morphology suggest a close relationship between Homarinus and Homarus, molecular analyses using mitochondrial DNA reveal that they are not sister taxa.
The closest living relative of Homarus is Nephrops norvegicus, while the closest relatives of Homarinus are Thymops and Thymopides.

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