Parastacus
| Parastacus | |
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| Parastacus pugnax, Chile | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Family: | Parastacidae |
| Genus: | Parastacus Huxley, 1879 |
Parastacus is a genus of southern crawfish in the family Parastacidae. There are about 15 described species in Parastacus, found in South America. In addition, there are some preserved specimens from Australia that are possibly members of this genus.[1][2][3]
Parastacus brasiliensis, Brazil
Species[]
These 15 species belong to the genus Parastacus:
- (von Martens, 1869)
- Huber, Ribeiro & Araujo, 2018
- Ribeiro & Araujo, 2016 (blue-fingered burrowing crayfish)
- Faxon, 1898
- Ribeiro & Buckup, 2016 (highland streams crayfish)
- Buckup & Rossi, 1980
- Huber, Rockhill, Araujo & Ribeiro, 2020
- (Philippi, 1882)
- Huber, Ribeiro & Araujo, 2018
- (von Martens, 1869)
- Fontoura & Conter, 2008
- (Poeppig, 1835)
- Faxon, 1898
- Ribeiro, Huber & Araujo, 2017
- Faxon, 1898
References[]
- ^ "Parastacus". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-10-25.
- ^ "World Register of Marine Species, genus Parastacus". Retrieved 2021-10-25.
- ^ Crandall, Keith A.; De Grave, Sammy (2017). "An updated classification of the freshwater crayfishes (Decapoda: Astacidea) of the world, with a complete species list". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 37 (5). doi:10.1093/jcbiol/rux070.
External links[]
Media related to Parastacus at Wikimedia Commons
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