Austropotamobius
| Austropotamobius Temporal range:
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| Austropotamobius torrentium | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Family: | Astacidae |
| Genus: | Austropotamobius Skorikow, 1907 |
| Type species | |
| Cancer torrentium Schrank, 1803
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Austropotamobius is a genus of European crayfish in the family Astacidae. It contains four extant species,[1][2] and one species known from fossils of Barremian age:[3]
- (Via, 1971) †
- (Faxon, 1914)
- Austropotamobius pallipes (Lereboullet, 1858) — White-clawed crayfish
- Austropotamobius torrentium (Schrank, 1803) — Stone crayfish
- Austropotamobius bihariensis Pârvulescu 2019[2] — Idle crayfish
References[]
- ^ James W. Fetzner, Jr. (May 9, 2005). "Genus Austropotamobius Skorikow, 1908". Crayfish Taxon Browser. Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Archived from the original on 2011-07-21. Retrieved August 11, 2011.
- ^ a b Pârvulescu, Lucian (2019). "Introducing a new Austropotamobius crayfish species (Crustacea, Decapoda, Astacidae): A Miocene endemism of the Apuseni Mountains, Romania". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 279: 94–102. doi:10.1016/j.jcz.2019.01.006.
- ^ Alycia L. Rode & Loren E. Babcock (2003). "Phylogeny of fossil and extant freshwater crayfish and some closely related nephropid lobsters". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 23 (2): 418–435. doi:10.1651/0278-0372(2003)023[0418:POFAEF]2.0.CO;2. JSTOR 1549646.
Categories:
- Astacidae
- Crustacean genera
- Extant Barremian first appearances
- Crayfish stubs