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Contents 1 Same as Maritimes lobster? 2 Information sources 3 Requested move 4 Links 5 Superlobsters? Turds? 6 Blue lobster 7 Yellow Lobster

[edit] Same as Maritimes lobster?

Is this the type of lobster you find in the Maritimes?--Sonjaaa 07:07, Sep 12, 2004 (UTC)

Yes. (anon user) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 12.177.18.3 (talk • contribs) 01:18, 18 November 2004 (UTC)

Why is it called american lobster because most of it is caught by canadians and around nova scotia?

[edit] Information sources

My information (no direct quotes) comes from The Secret Life of Lobsters by Trevor Corson, first edition, 2004 from HarperCollins.

Referenced so far:

swimmerettes: pages 47, 48-9

foreplay: p 50

sex act: p 60

egg production: pp 120-1

egg development: p 146

superlobster: pp 146-8

baby preditation: p 159

To do:

building and digging: p 88

fighting technique: pp 128-9

demographic bottleneck: p 145

eye: p 189

prey: p 191

smell and fighting: pp 194-5

urine communication: pp 196-8

following smells: p 202

smell and waterspeed: p 207

--Elijah 20:01, 2004 Nov 18 (UTC)

As of my last edit, all but the demographic bottleneck and prey have been used, but building and digging could be expanded.

A nice antomical drawing, like this one:

bottom view from Gulf of Maine Aquarium Lobster Anatomy Projects

would be nice. The role of serotonin in fighting could be added, see:

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--Elijah 23:41, 2004 Dec 3 (UTC)

[edit] Requested move

In line with the agreement that animal names other than bird names should not be capitalised, and in line with all the other crustacean pages, these names should be converted to lower case. Stemonitis 11:27, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• Support. This makes inline linking easier. Jonathunder 17:44, 2005 Mar 4 (UTC)
• Support - makes sense according to policy. violet/riga (t) 18:44, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
• Support this and all other (nonavian?) animal moves. — Knowledge Seeker দ 20:05, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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I persume a vote to move American Lobster includes Caribbean Hermit Crab → Caribbean hermit crab as per the request on WP:RM page --Philip Baird Shearer 18:38, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I know that somewhere it's written that only birds should be capitalised, but the reality is that many articles and redlinks for specific species other than birds are capitalized (eg Category:Rhinos, Category:Opossums, Canidae, Idiosepiidae, Crocodile). I don't know if the discussion on whether animal names should be capitalized was ever publicized enuf to gain a meaningful consensus (I don't remember where I saw it, but if I remember correctly there were less than ten people involved). Niteowlneils 02:05, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)

The first word of an article title is always capitalized. Later words usually aren't unless they would be in ordinary text. This is to make inline linking easier. I don't know why birds would be different. That seems odd. Can anyone point to where that's written? Jonathunder 00:32, 2005 Mar 7 (UTC)

It seems odd to me as well, but in the past when I brought it up (for animals in general), I was told that it is controversial and that apparently field guides for ornithology use capital letters. I have yet to see any use of capitals for other animals in any journal article, reference work, encyclopedia, etc. (outside of Wikipedia). I personally feel that all should be lower-cased, unless a proper noun (e.g., Pacific white-sided dolphin, but bottlenose dolphin). — Knowledge Seeker দ 03:08, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)

In some fields, there are de facto committees deciding on "official" English "vernacular" names for taxa. One such field is the birds of North America (and, to my knowledge, only there) which is decreed by the AOU Checklist Committee. In a (ongoing) discussion on TAXACOM, the only other group suggested for which "standardised" English names have been produced is North American herpets (reptiles and amphibians) - (Standard Common and Current Scientific Names for North American Amphibians, Turtles, Reptiles, and Crocodilians. Fifth Edition (2002) by Joseph T. Collins and Travis W. Taggart [2]). So it seems that outside the vertebrates of the USA (and possibly Canada), there is no case for, or tradition of, capitalisation. The discussion, or at least part of it, was at: Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(fauna). Stemonitis 08:02, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Moved: American Lobster → American lobster. violet/riga (t) 20:01, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Links

This page needs links. Anyone know any other resorces? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.5.147.2 (talk • contribs) 17:47, 7 April 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Superlobsters? Turds?

I searched Google, finding that the only pages mentioning the terms "superlobster" and "postlarva" at the same time are quoting the Wikipedia article. Also, I did not find a single reference to lobsters referred to as "turds" after molting. I believe those entries are vandalisms and must be removed. -- Devil Master, 30 Mar 2006, 23:53 (MET)

[edit] Blue lobster

Blue lobster redirects here, but there is not so much as a sentence about it. --Centrx 07:44, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Blue lobster content has been added along with split color lobster. --Awing0 17:43, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Yellow Lobster

Hey, I just added information about the yellow lobster. While I cant cite any sorces unfortunatly, I can state that it has passed away. My uncle owns The Rockland Cafe, which is where the lobster was located. my mother just got off the phone with him, and he had just finished explaining that he had just replaced the compressor a few weeks ago, and it died last night, causing him to loose all his lobsters in his resturant. If I can find a sorce *im sure it will be in rocklands newspaper* i will post it. Unfortunatly I live in Pennsylvania and am not making a trip back to Rockland untill next month.--Azslande 22:51, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Im looking now, but I doubt I will find any sorces for at least a day or two as I doubt its hit the news paper yet.--Azslande 22:54, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

For future reference, please note that Wikipedia is not the place for eye-witness news accounts. Please wait until an event has been published in a relible source, so that you can add the reference when you add the information. Thank you. -- Donald Albury^(Talk) 00:48, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes I realise this, but I know for a fact that its been published, Im just having a hard time finding a link to a news article on it. If I cannot find a directly link within a few days, I have no problem with it being removed, I just know for a fact that it has happened.--Azslande 20:59, 24 August 2006 (UTC)