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==Distribution== The two extant species of ''Homarus'' are both found in the [[North Atlantic Ocean]]. ''H. americanus'' is found from [[Labrador]] to [[North Carolina]] in the western North Atlantic,<ref name="Cobb">{{cite book |editor=Bruce F. Phillips |year=2006 |title=Lobsters: Biology, Management, Aquaculture and Fisheries |publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons]] |isbn=978-1-4051-2657-1 |chapter=''Homarus'' species |pages=310–339 |author1=J. Stanley Cobb |author2=Kathleen M. Castro |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=INyDNY-oXLAC&pg=PA310}}</ref><ref name="NOBANIS">{{cite web |author=Gro I. van der Meeren, Josianne Støttrup, Mats Ulmestrand & Jan Atle Knutsen |year=2006 |work=Online Database of the North European and Baltic Network on Invasive Alien Species |title=Invasive Alien Species Fact Sheet: ''Homarus americanus'' |publisher=[[NOBANIS]] |url=http://www.nobanis.org/files/factsheets/homarus_americanus.pdf |accessdate=May 4, 2011}}</ref> while ''H. gammarus'' is found from [[Arctic Norway]] to [[Morocco]], including the [[British Isles]] and the [[Mediterranean Sea]].<ref name="MLW_gammarus">{{cite book |url=http://nlbif.eti.uva.nl/bis/lobsters.php?menuentry=soorten&id=89 |chapter=''Homarus gammarus'' |page=60 |work=FAO Species Catalogue, Volume 13 |title=Marine Lobsters of the World |author=Lipke B. Holthuis |publisher=[[Food and Agriculture Organization]] |year=1991 |isbn=92-5-103027-8 |series=FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 125 |authorlink=Lipke Holthuis |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100910101108/http://nlbif.eti.uva.nl/bis/lobsters.php?menuentry=soorten |archivedate=2010-09-10 }}</ref><ref name="Cobb"/>
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