Orconectes

Orconectes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Family:	Cambaridae
Subfamily:	Cambarinae
Genus:	Orconectes; Cope, 1872
Type species
	; Cope, 1872
Subgenera
	; ; ; Faxonius; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;

Orconectes is a genus of cave dwelling freshwater crayfish, native to the eastern United States and Canada. Surface dwelling species, formerly categorised here were moved to Faxonius in 2017.

Taxonomy[]

The genus Orconectes was erected in 1872 by Edward Drinker Cope to house Astacus pellucidus (now ) and his new species, .^[1]

Approximately 85 species are known, divided into 11 subgenera.^[2]

Scientific name	Common name	Distribution	Authority	Year	Subgenus
	redspotted stream crayfish	Arkansas	Fitzpatrick	1965	Procericambarus
O. alabamensis	Alabama crayfish	Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee	(Faxon)	1884	Trisellescens
O. australis	southern cave crayfish	Alabama, Tennessee	(Rhoades)	1941	Orconectes
	Barren River crayfish	Kentucky, Tennessee	Rhoades	1944	Procericambarus
	Cumberland Plateau cave crayfish	Kentucky, Tennessee	Buhay & Crandall	2008	Orconectes
O. bisectus	Crittenden crayfish	Kentucky	Rhoades	1944	Crockerinus
	Blood River crayfish	Kentucky, Tennessee	Taylor & Sabaj	1998	Crockerinus
	North Carolina spiny crayfish	North Carolina	Cooper & Cooper	1995	Procericambarus
	western plains crayfish	Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas	Jester	1967	Gremicambarus
	Chickasaw crayfish	Mississippi	Cooper & Hobbs	1980	Trisellescens
	slender crayfish	Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee	(Faxon)	1884	Gremicambarus
O. cooperi	Flint River crayfish	Alabama, Tennessee	Cooper & Hobbs	1980	Trisellescens
	spiny stream crayfish	Kentucky, North Carolina, Virginia	Taylor	2000	Procericambarus
O. deanae	conchas crayfish	New Mexico, Oklahoma	Reimer & Jester	1975	Hespericambarus
	painted crayfish	Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas	(Faxon)	1898	Hespericambarus
	saddle crayfish	Kentucky, Tennessee	Bouchard & Bouchard	1995	Procericambarus
O. erichsonianus	reticulate crayfish	Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia	(Faxon)	1898	Crockerinus
	Ets crayfish	Mississippi, Tennessee	Bouchard & Bouchard	1976	Trisellescens
	coldwater crayfish	Arkansas, Missouri	Williams	1952	Crockerinus
	surgeon crayfish	Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia	(Faxon)	1884	Procericambarus
	belted crayfish	Missouri	(Faxon)	1884	Billecambarus
O. hartfieldi	Yazoo crayfish	Mississippi	Fitzpatrick & Suttkus	1992	Hespericambarus
	Teche pointed crayfish	Louisiana	Penn	1952	Hespericambarus
	Pontchartrain painted crayfish	Louisiana, Mississippi	Penn	1950	Buannulifictus
O. holti	bimaculate crayfish	Alabama	Cooper & Hobbs	1980	Trisellescens
	woodland crayfish	Missouri	(Faxon)	1890	Procericambarus
	Shawnee crayfish	Illinois	Brown	1956	Crockerinus
O. incomptus	Tennessee cave crayfish	Tennessee	Hobbs & Barr	1972	Orconectes
	ghost crayfish / unarmed crayfish	Indiana, Kentucky	Cope	1872	Orconectes
O. jeffersoni	Louisville crayfish	Kentucky	Rhoades	1944	Crockerinus
O. jonesi	Sucarnoochee crayfish	Alabama, Mississippi	Fitzpatrick	1992	Gremicambarus
	Kentucky River crayfish	Indiana, Kentucky	(Hagen)	1870	Procericambarus
O. kentuckiensis	Kentucky crayfish	Illinois, Kentucky	Rhoades	1944	Rhoadesius
	shrimp crayfish	Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas	(Hagen)	1870	Tragulicambarus
	Little River Creek crayfish	Arkansas, Oklahoma	Hobbs	1948	Procericambarus
	longpincered crayfish	Arkansas, Missouri	(Faxon)	1898	Procericambarus
	golden crayfish	Arkansas, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin	(Creaser)	1933	Procericambarus
	Neosho midget crayfish	Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas	Williams	1952	Procericambarus
O. maletae	Kisatchie painted crayfish	Louisiana, Texas	Walls	1972	Hespericambarus
O. marchandi	Mammoth Spring crayfish	Arkansas, Missouri	Hobbs	1948	Crockerinus
	Livingston crayfish	Kentucky	Taylor	2002	Crockerinus
	saddlebacked crayfish	Missouri	(Faxon)	1884	Procericambarus
	Meek's crayfish	Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma	(Faxon)	1898	Buannulifictus
O. menae	Mena crayfish	Arkansas, Oklahoma	(Creaser)	1933	Procericambarus
	wonderful crayfish	Alabama, Tennessee	(Ortmann)	1931	Procericambarus
O. mississippiensis	Mississippi crayfish	Mississippi	(Faxon)	1884	Trisellescens
	water nymph crayfish	Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas	(Faxon)	1885	Gremicambarus
	midget crayfish	Arkansas, Oklahoma	Williams	1952	Procericambarus
	ringed crayfish	Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma	(Faxon)	1885	Procericambarus
O. obscurus	Allegheny crayfish	Ontario, Maryland, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia	(Hagen)	1870	Crockerinus
	Ozark crayfish	Arkansas, Missouri	Williams	1952	Procericambarus
	cave crayfish	Kentucky	Rhoades	1944	Orconectes
	mottled crayfish	Tennessee	Taylor & Sabaj	1997	Orconectes
	gray-speckled crayfish	Arkansas, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas	(Faxon)	1884	Buannulifictus
	leopard crayfish	Illinois	Wetzel, Poly & Fetzner	2005	Procericambarus
	Mammoth Cave crayfish	Kentucky, Tennessee	(Tellkampf)	1844	Orconectes
	complete crayfish	Alabama, Mississippi	Walls	1972	Hespericambarus
O. peruncus	Big Creek crayfish	Missouri	(Creaser)	1931	Procericambarus
	bigclaw crayfish	Alabama, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee	(Hagen)	1870	Procericambarus
O. propinquus	northern clearwater crayfish	Canada, Eastern United States	(Girard)	1852	Crockerinus
	spothanded crayfish	Arkansas, Missouri	(Creaser)	1933	Procericambarus
	phallic crayfish	Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee	(Faxon)	1884	Procericambarus
O. quadruncus	St. Francis River crayfish	Missouri	(Creaser)	1933	Procericambarus
	Quinebaug River crayfish	Massachusetts	Matthews & Warren	2008	Gremicambarus
	Rough River crayfish	Kentucky	Rhoades	1944	Crockerinus
	Norwood River crayfish	Ohio	Thoma & Stocker	2009	Procericambarus
	fishhook crayfish	Tennessee	Hobbs	1949	Trisellescens
	Mud River crayfish	Kentucky	Taylor	2000	Procericambarus
O. sanbornii	Sanborn's crayfish	Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia	(Faxon)	1884	Crockerinus
O. saxatilis	Kiamichi crayfish	Oklahoma	Bouchard & Bouchard	1976	Procericambarus
	Shelta cave crayfish	Alabama	Cooper & Cooper	1997	Orconectes
O. shoupi	Nashville crayfish	Tennessee	Hobbs	1948	Crockerinus
O. sloanii	Sloan crayfish	Indiana, Ohio	(Bundy)	1876	Rhoadesius
	Coona River spiny crayfish	Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee	(Bundy)	1877	Procericambarus
O. stannardi	Little Wabash crayfish	Illinois	Page	1985	Crockerinus
	Caney Mountain cave crayfish	Missouri	Hobbs III	2001	Orconectes
	crescent crayfish	Tennessee	Schuster	2008	Trisellescens
	sinkhole crayfish	Indiana	Simon, Timm & Morris	2005	Procericambarus
	western highland crayfish	Kentucky	Rhoades	1944	Crockerinus
O. validus	powerful crayfish	Alabama, Tennessee	(Faxon)	1914	Trisellescens
	Chowanoke crayfish	North Carolina, Virginia	Hobbs	1951	Crockerinus
	Williams crayfish	Arkansas, Missouri	Fitzpatrick	1966	Procericambarus

References[]

^ Keith A. Crandall; James W. Fetzner, Jr.; Horton H. Hobbs, Jr. (2001). "Orconectes Cope, 1872". Tree of Life Web Project.
^ James W. Fetzner, Jr. (January 14, 2008). "Orconectes". The Crayfish and Lobster Taxonomy Browser. Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
^ "Search". IUCN Red List. IUCN. Retrieved October 8, 2010.

External links[]

James W. Fetzner Jr. (September 11, 2006). "Key to the species of the genus Orconectes". Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
Data related to Orconectes at Wikispecies

[1] Keith A. Crandall; James W. Fetzner, Jr.; Horton H. Hobbs, Jr. (2001). "Orconectes Cope, 1872". Tree of Life Web Project.

[2] James W. Fetzner, Jr. (January 14, 2008). "Orconectes". The Crayfish and Lobster Taxonomy Browser. Carnegie Museum of Natural History.

[3] "Search". IUCN Red List. IUCN. Retrieved October 8, 2010.

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