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European lobster
Sven Traenkner, Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung2017-09-21
Senckenberg Nature Museum Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Like all crustaceans the European lobster has a hard exoskeleton which they have to shed in order to grow. A young lobster moults several times a years, but with increasing size of the animal the number of annual moultings decreases.
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- Title: European lobster
- Creator: Sven Traenkner, Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung
- Date Created: 2017-09-21
- Location: Northeastern Atlantic Ocean, western Mediterranean and Black Sea
- Rights: Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung
- scientific name: <i>Homarus gammarus<i>
- geological Age: extant
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