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The crayfish culinary trend swept mainland China since the late 1990s, and now as the world's largest producer and consumer of crayfish, all of China's crayfish are farmed Procambarus clarkii.
Crayfish usually have limited home range and so they rest, digest, and eliminate their waste, most commonly in the same location each day. Feeding exposes the crayfish to risk of predation, and so feeding behaviour is often rapid and synchronised with feeding processes that reduce such risks — eat, hide, process and eliminate.
Palaeocambarus is an extinct genus of crayfish discovered in the Yixian Formation in China, with only a single species, P. licenti. It is one of the oldest known fossil crayfish. [1] [2] [3] The genus Cricoidoscelosus is now considered to be a junior synonym. [1]
Cambaroides is a genus of freshwater crayfish from eastern Asia (eastern Russia, northeastern China, Korean Peninsula and Japan). Together with Pontastacus, they are the only crayfish native to Asia. Cambaroides contains about six species: [1] [2] [3]
Procambarus clarkii, known variously as the red swamp crayfish, Louisiana crawfish or mudbug, [3] is a species of cambarid crayfish native to freshwater bodies of northern Mexico, and southern and southeastern United States, but also introduced elsewhere (both in North America and other continents), where it is often an invasive pest.
Cambaroididae is a family of crayfish. It contains two genera, the extant Cambaroides , known from a number of species living in East Asia, and the extinct Palaeocambarus , known from the Early Cretaceous ( Barremian - Aptian ) Yixian Formation of China.
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Cambaroides similis is a species of crayfish endemic to the Korean Peninsula and neighbouring parts of China. [1] References