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Louisiana produces 100 million pounds (45 million kilograms) of crawfish per year with the red swamp and white river crawfish being the main species harvested. [21] Crawfish are a part of Cajun culture dating back hundreds of years. [22] A variety of cottage industries have developed as a result of commercialized crawfish iconography.
Crayfish, crawfish and crawdad are all the same animal, but they’re called different names in different regions. The Australian redclaw crayfish are much larger than the species native to the U.S.
The genus Cambarus is the second largest freshwater crayfish genus inhabiting the Northern Hemisphere, with only sixty fewer species than the genus Procambarus. [2] Though Cambarus are varied across species, the two terminal elements that make up the male form I gonopod form ninety degree angles with the central appendage, allowing for their identification.
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]
The Cambaridae are the largest of the four families of freshwater crayfish, with over 400 species. [1] Most of the species in the family are native to the United States east of the Great Divide and Mexico, but fewer range north to Canada, and south to Guatemala and Honduras. Three live on the island of Cuba.
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 ]
Cambarus howardi, the Chattahoochee crayfish, [2] is a species of crayfish in the family Cambaridae. It is found in North America. It is found in North America. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The common name refers to the Chattahoochee River , where the first specimens were collected.
Map from Glon et al. 2022 showing range of Lacunicambarus species. [3]Lacunicambarus is one of the widest ranging crayfish genera in North America. [3] Species from this genus can be found in nearly every state east of the Rocky Mountains and in the Province of Ontario.