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Exceptions include western rock lobster (of the Palinuridae family) found on the west coast of Australia (it is a spiny lobster, but not of Jasus); the Tasmanian giant freshwater crayfish (from the Parastacidae family and therefore a true crayfish) found only in Tasmania; and the Murray crayfish found along Australia's Murray River.
The crawfish frog (Lithobates areolatus) [7] is a medium-sized species of frog native to the prairies and grasslands of the central United States. [8] It gets its name because it inhabits the burrows of crayfish for most of the year. They have defined golden or black circles all over their body. [9]
On the issue of crayfish vs crawfish, I would address it with Wikipedia in this context: All of the freshwater decapods in the Cambarinae are referred to as crayfish, but the scientifically recognized common names of the species Procambarus clarkii and Procambarus zonangulus are “red swamp crawfish” and “white river crawfish” respectively.
Palinurus elephas is a commonly caught species of spiny lobster from the East Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea.Its common names include European spiny lobster, [2] crayfish or cray (in Ireland), crawfish (in England), common spiny lobster, [3] Mediterranean lobster [4] and red lobster.
Faxonius virilis is a species of crayfish known as the virile crayfish, northern crayfish, eastern crayfish, and lesser known as the lake crayfish or common crawfish. Faxonius virilis was reclassified in August 2017, and the genus was changed from Orconectes to Faxonius . [ 4 ]
Pacifastacus fortis (known as the Shasta crayfish or placid crayfish) is an endangered crayfish species endemic to Shasta County, California, where it is found and first described in 1914, only in isolated spots along the Pit River and Fall River Mills. [4] It is estimated that there are a total of roughly 4000 of the species still alive today. [5]
Pontastacus leptodactylus, [2] the Danube crayfish, [3] Galician crayfish, [3] Turkish crayfish [4] or narrow-clawed crayfish, is a relatively large and economically important species of crayfish native to fresh and brackish waters in eastern Europe and western Asia, mainly in the Pontic–Caspian region, among others including the basins of the Black Sea, and the Danube, Dnieper, Don and ...
Cambarellus lesliei is a species of crayfish in the family Cambaridae. It is native to Alabama and Mississippi in the United States. [2] [1] It is known commonly as the angular dwarf crawfish. [1] The main part of this species' distribution is Mobile Bay. It has been collected from the Alabama, Mobile, and Tombigbee Rivers. It lives in ...