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The Largest Crayfish

Lobster (Umi-zarigani in Japanese) is the common name of the two kinds of crustaceans classified as order: Decapoda, infraorder: Astacidea, family: Nephropidae, genus: Homarus, are the largest in Decapoda and Astacidea belong to crayfish family, are treated as luxurious foodstuffs among European cuisine.

As foodstuffs, they are called Homarus, came from a French word “Homard” means a hammer, because of their claws resemble that, yet the claws are normally used for threatening. To dig burrow, to hunt the preys, they use  the small mandibles around their mouthpart
There are differences between their right and left claws, that the right has a serrated edge like a saw, and the left has a rugged edge like molars (the back teeth).

In general, they grow into 50cm in length, yet have been known that some American lobsters reach the length of 120cm, and have extraordinary longevities as the lobster of roughly 100 years old discovered in the past, furthermore is the report about the lobster, which was obtained by Keith Valenti the manager of the restaurant “City Crab and Seafood” in New York, was estimated the age of 140 years, was finally released back to the sea on 9th January 2009. 

This work was produced for my final project at the university, mostly consists of copper, the pattern on the surface of its body and claws were depicted by silver brazing, was formed to be immovable in order to exhibit the pose as an art object.
Incidentally, I could not eat lobsters, has nothing to do with allergies, is just a prejudice.