Кап ағыс шаяны (Homarinus capensis)

Species of crustacean
Speciesbox
| name = Cape lobster
| image = Cancer capensis Herbst. png
| image caption = Herbst's 1792 illustration
| genus = Homarinus
| parent authority = Kornfield, Williams & Steneck, 1995
| species = capensis
| authority = (Herbst, 1792)
| synonyms =
Cancer (Astacus) capensis Herbst, 1792
Astacus fulvus Fabricius, 1793
Homarus fulvus Weber, 1795
Astacus capensis Latreille, 1802
Cancer (Astacus) fulvusTurton, 1806
| synonyms ref =   Later authors, including Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing, concluded that the illustrator must have made the error.

Cape lobsters are elusive and rare, with only fourteen specimens having been collected between 1792 (the date of its first description) and 1992. In 1992, a Cape lobster was discovered at Dassen Island, and the publicity the find generated resulted in more than 20 additional specimens being reported. The Cape lobster was first described by Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst in 1792 as Cancer (Astacus) capensis. It was independently described in 1793 by Johan Christian Fabricius as Astacus flavus, possibly based on the same type specimen. While analyses of morphology suggest a close relationship between Homarinus and Homarus, molecular analyses using mitochondrial DNA reveal that they are not sister taxa. Both genera lack ornamentation such as spines and carinae, but are thought to have reached that state independently, through convergent evolution. The closest living relative of Homarus is Nephrops norvegicus, while the closest relatives of Homarinus are Thymops and Thymopides.