• Question: Why are there no lobsters in the pacific?

    Asked by samjoeliam to Marianne on 16 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Marianne Baker

      Marianne Baker answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      Hey samjoeliam,

      I thought there were plenty, actually!
      – I’ve had a look and someone says the following:
      “There are no clawed lobsters in the Pacific Ocean, but spiny lobsters can be found there. As for why there are no clawed lobsters in the Pacific, there is no consensus that I know of on why this is the case. It is almost surely related to the evolutionary history of clawed lobsters. Perhaps clawed lobsters evolved in the northern Atlantic originally, and because they were isolated from the northern Pacific by the North American continent, they were unable to migrate to the north Pacific. ”
      So there we go.

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