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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]
In the United States, crayfish are often referred to as crawfish, crawdads, fiddlers, crawdaddies, or mudbugs. As of 2018, 93% of crawfish farms in the US were located in Louisiana. [ 9 ] In 1987, Louisiana produced 90% of the crayfish harvested in the world, 70% of which were consumed locally. [ 10 ]
Palaeocambarus is an extinct genus of crayfish discovered in the Yixian Formation in China, with only a single species, Palaeocambarus 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 similis is a species of crayfish endemic to the Korean Peninsula and neighbouring parts of China. [1] References
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.
Astacidae is a family of freshwater crayfish native to Europe, western Asia and western North America. The family is made up of four extant (living) genera: The genera Astacus (which includes the European crayfish), Pontastacus (which includes the Turkish crayfish), and Austropotamobius are all found throughout Europe and parts of western Asia, while Pacifastacus (which includes the signal ...
On the issue of crayfish vs crawfish, I would address it with Wikipedia in this context: All of the freshwater decapods in the Cambarinae are referred to as crayfish, but the scientifically recognized common names of the species Procambarus clarkii and Procambarus zonangulus are “red swamp crawfish” and “white river crawfish” respectively.
Cambaroides japonicus, also known as Japanese crayfish (ニホンザリガニ, Nihon zarigani), is a species of crayfish endemic to Japan. [2] They are small in size (6 cm) and grayish in color. Its front claws are much weaker than the American crayfish, which is an invasive species in Japan.