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Faxonius shoupi, the Nashville crayfish, is a freshwater crustacean native to the Mill Creek Basin in Nashville, Tennessee. [2] Prior to August 2017, the species was called Orconectes shoupi . [ 4 ] Faxonius shoupi is protected under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) as an endangered species.
"Winter Wonderland" is a song written in 1934 by Felix Bernard and lyricist Richard Bernhard Smith. Due to its seasonal theme, it is often regarded as a Christmas song in the Northern Hemisphere . Since its original recording by Richard Himber , it has been covered by over 200 different artists.
Gestation of the eggs takes about nine months, with females carrying the eggs on their tail through winter. After hatching in mid-summer, the hatchlings of about 6 millimetres (0.24 in) attach to the female's swimming legs and will remain with the mother until a few months later in autumn.
Female crayfish enter a secluded and secure place to release eggs and attach them to their swimmerets, at which point they are referred to as "in berry". Female crawfish will hold the eggs and the young until their second molt, they have been found with eggs and young during the months of May and June.
Euastacus spinifer is a species of freshwater crayfish endemic to Australia that belongs to the family Parastacidae. [2] It was first described in 1865 as Astacoides spinifer by Camill Heller, [2] [3] but has been redescribed many times. [2] The argument [4] for the synonymy of the various names has been accepted. [2]
It is commonly called crayfish in Australia and New Zealand and kōura in Māori. [3] They resemble lobsters , but lack the large characteristic pincers on the first pair of walking legs. Spiny rock lobsters are carnivorous , leaving their rock cover to venture out to feed during the night.
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 ...
Procambarus zonangulus, the white river crawfish, [4] white river crayfish [5] or southern white river crayfish, [1] [6] is a species of freshwater crayfish. It is a distinct but closely related species from Procambarus acutus , which is also known as white river crayfish and has a wider range.