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Tenuibranchiurus. Virilastacus. The Parastacidae are the family of freshwater crayfish found in the Southern Hemisphere. The family is a classic Gondwana -distributed taxon, with extant members in South America, Madagascar, Australia, New Zealand, and New Guinea, and extinct taxa also in Antarctica.
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Euastacus spinifer. 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]
Pleocyemata. Family: Parastacidae. Genus: Parastacus. Huxley, 1879. Parastacus is a genus of southern crawfish in the family Parastacidae. There are about 15 described species in Parastacus, found in South America. In addition, there are some preserved specimens from Australia that are possibly members of this genus.
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The common yabby (Cherax destructor) is an Australian freshwater crustacean in the Parastacidae family. It is listed as a vulnerable species [1] of crayfish by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), though the wild yabby populations remain strong, and have expanded into new habitats created by reservoirs and farm dams. [2 ...
Euastacus is a genus of freshwater crayfish known as "spiny crayfish". They are found in the south-east of the Australian mainland, along with another genus of crayfish, Cherax. Both genera are members of the family Parastacidae, a family of freshwater crayfish restricted to the Southern Hemisphere. Euastacus crayfish are distinguished from the ...
Astacoides. Astacoides is a genus of freshwater crayfish endemic to Madagascar. The first specimens were brought to Europe in 1839, and seven species are now recognised, most of which are considered as threatened on the IUCN Red List. They are large and slow-growing, and are threatened by habitat loss, overexploitation by local people and by ...