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  2. Crayfish - Wikipedia

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    In the United Kingdom and Ireland, the terms crayfish or crawfish commonly refer to the European spiny lobster, a saltwater species found in much of the East Atlantic and Mediterranean. [34] The only true crayfish species native to the British Isles is the endangered white clawed crayfish .

  3. Gramastacus - Wikipedia

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    Western Swamp Crayfish - Gramastacus insolitus Riek, 1972 (western Victoria, Australia) - a very small non-burrowing crayfish that shares burrows with larger crayfish species Eastern Swamp Crayfish - Gramastacus lacus McCormack, 2014 (coastal regions of New South Wales, Australia) - a larger, more robust crayfish species that digs their own burrows

  4. Cherax - Wikipedia

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    Cherax, commonly known as yabby/yabbies in Australia, is the most widespread genus of fully aquatic crayfish in the Southern Hemisphere. Various species of cherax may be found in both still and flowing bodies of freshwater across most of Australia and New Guinea. Together with Euastacus, it is also the largest crayfish genus in the Southern ...

  5. Cherax quadricarinatus - Wikipedia

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    C. quadricarinatus is often kept in aquariums worldwide, and is the only species of crayfish that can be kept in indoor aquaria for ornamental use in the UK (except Scotland) without a licence. [7] [8] It is farmed commercially in Queensland and the Northern Territory, and is harvested at between 35–130 grams (1.2–4.6 oz). [6]

  6. Procambarus clarkii - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Parastacidae - Wikipedia

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    Parastacidae belongs to the superfamily Parastacoidea, the monotypic taxon which contains all crayfish in the Southern Hemisphere. Parastacoidea is the sister taxon to Astacoidea, which contains all crayfish of the Northern Hemisphere. Crayfish and lobsters together comprise the infraorder Astacidea, as shown in the simplified cladogram below ...

  8. Faxonius obscurus - Wikipedia

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    It is an introduced species in adjacent regions, including Massachusetts, Vermont, and Ontario in Canada. [1] It is known commonly as the Allegheny crayfish [ 2 ] and the obscure crayfish . This species lives in slow-moving waterways and pools with rocky substrates, where it hides beneath rocks. [ 1 ]

  9. Cambarus bartonii - Wikipedia

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    Cambarus bartonii is a species of crayfish native to eastern North America, where it is called the common crayfish [3] or Appalachian brook crayfish. [2]Cambarus bartonii was the first crayfish to be described from North America, when Johan Christian Fabricius published it under the name Astacus bartonii in his 1798 work Supplementum entomologiae systematicae. [4]