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Cape lobster : ウィキペディア英語版 | 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. Only a few dozen specimens are known, mostly regurgitated by reef-dwelling fish. It lives in rocky reefs, and is thought to lay large eggs that have a short larval phase, or that hatch directly as a juvenile. 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''. Its closest relatives are the genera ''Thymops'' and ''Thymopides''. ==Distribution and ecology==
The Cape lobster is endemic to South Africa. It occurs from Dassen Island, Western Cape in the west to Haga Haga, Eastern Cape in the east, a range of .〔 Most of the known specimens were regurgitated by fish caught on reefs at depths of .〔 This suggests that the Cape lobster inhabits rocky substrates, and may explain its apparent rarity, since such areas are not amenable to dredging or trawling, and the species may be too small to be retained by lobster traps.〔
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