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Cherax boesemani is a relatively large crayfish, adult body length is 5–6 in (13–15 cm). [2] Variable blues, reds, and oranges are the predominant carapace colours, which has led to extensive selective breeding to create new commercial strains , with names such as Blue Moon , Supernova , Papuan red , tricolor and Red Brick .
[4] [5] The smooth marron is known to follow a similar reproductive pattern, but there is some evidence that their breeding season occurs earlier in the year than that of the hairy marron. [ 4 ] [ 8 ] This difference in timing is theorized to result in the juvenile smooth marron reaching larger sizes before juvenile hairy marron, granting the ...
Murray crayfish have large white claws and a dark olive/grey/black carapace, all of which are covered in short robust spikes. [2] In small individuals, the claws are green and yellow. [2] The crayfish begin to breed when they are 15–20 cm (6–8 in) long, which takes between 6 and 9 years. [2]
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.
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 ...
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The Everglades crayfish [2] (Procambarus alleni), sometimes called the Florida crayfish, the blue crayfish, the electric blue crayfish, or the sapphire crayfish, is a species of freshwater crayfish endemic to Florida in the United States.
The palawa kani Language Program of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre has revived ‘lutaralipina’ (pronounced: lu-tar-rah-lee-pee-nah) as the appropriate Tasmanian Aboriginal term for the giant freshwater crayfish (A. gouldi); and ‘tayatitja’ (pronounced: tie-yah-tee-tchah) for the small southern freshwater crayfish (A. franklinii).