A claw by any other name . . .

Famed foodie emporium Zabar’s has for decades sold “lobster salad” without a key ingredient — lobster.

Instead, the Upper West Side gourmet food store has made its salad from the crustacean’s shrimpy distant cousin, crayfish.

So, under pressure from the Maine Lobster Council, Zabar’s agreed this week to rechristen its dish “sea fare salad.”

“It’s certainly not Maine lobster, but it’s related, and it’s high quality and wild caught,” owner Saul Zabar, 83, told The Post.

Zabar’s got a call from Dane Summers of the lobster council after being ratted out by a New Orleans food writer who knows a thing or two about crayfish and had visited the store.

Summers informed Zabar that calling crayfish meat “lobster” violated FDA and Federal Trade Commission regulations.

So the change was made and applauded by some Zabar’s customers like Rodney Bacot, 61.

The old label was “false advertising, for sure,” Bacot said. “I’d be mad if I got home and I saw it wasn’t lobster.”