name: Norway Lobster

flavor_db_name_variants: norway lobster

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Norway lobster

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name_scientific: Nephrops norvegicus

description: Nephrops norvegicus, known variously as the Norway lobster, Dublin Bay prawn, langoustine (compare langostino) or scampi, is a slim, orange-pink lobster which grows up to 25 cm (10 in) long, and is "the most important commercial crustacean in Europe". It is now the only extant species in the genus Nephrops, after several other species were moved to the closely related genus Metanephrops. It lives in the north-eastern Atlantic Ocean, and parts of the Mediterranean Sea, but is absent from the Baltic Sea and Black Sea. Adults emerge from their burrows at night to feed on worms and fish.

itis_id: 97317

wikipedia_id: Norway_lobster

picture_file_name: 603.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 65839

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:44:01.000Z

legacy_id: 630

food_group: Aquatic foods

food_subgroup: Crustaceans

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:50.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:05:28.000Z

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updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 6829

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00589