Editing Homarus (section)

{{Short description|Genus of lobsters}}
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{{Automatic taxobox
| name = ''Homarus''
| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Albian|Recent|[[Albian]]–Recent}}
| image = KreeftbijDenOsse.jpg
| image_caption = ''[[Homarus gammarus]]''
| taxon = Homarus
| authority = [[Friedrich Weber (entomologist)|Weber]], 1795
| type_species = ''[[Homarus gammarus|Astacus marinus]]''
| type_species_authority = [[Johan Christian Fabricius|Fabricius]], 1775
| subdivision_ranks = Extant species
| subdivision = ''H. americanus'' – [[American lobster]]<br/>''[[Homarus gammarus|H. gammarus]]'' – European lobster
}}

'''''Homarus''''' is a [[genus]] of [[lobster]]s, which include the common and commercially significant species ''Homarus americanus'' (the [[American lobster]]) and ''[[Homarus gammarus]]'' (the European lobster).<ref>{{ITIS |taxon=''Homarus'' Weber, 1795 |id=97313 |accessdate=June 25, 2011}}</ref> The [[Cape lobster]], which was formerly in this genus as ''H. capensis'', was moved in 1995 to the new genus ''Homarinus''.<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Irv Kornfield |author2=Austin B. Williams |author3=Robert S. Steneck |year=1995 |title=Assignment of ''Homarus capensis'' (Herbst, 1792), the Cape lobster of South Africa, to ''Homarius'' new genus (Decapoda: Nephropidae) |journal=[[Fishery Bulletin]] |volume=93 |issue=1 |pages=97–102 |url=http://fishbull.noaa.gov/931/kornfield.pdf }}</ref>