Austropotamobius
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| Austropotamobius Temporal range: Barremian–Recent |
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| Austropotamobius torrentium | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Family: | Astacidae |
| Genus: | Austropotamobius Skorikow, 1907 |
| Type species | |
| Cancer torrentium Schrank, 1803 |
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Austropotamobius is a genus of crayfish in the family Astacidae. It contains three extant species,[1] and one species known from fossils of Barremian age:[2]
- Austropotamobius llopisi (Via, 1971) †
- Austropotamobius italicus (Faxon, 1914)
- Austropotamobius pallipes (Lereboullet, 1858)
- Austropotamobius torrentium (Schrank, 1803) — stone crayfish
[edit] References
- ^ James W. Fetzner, Jr. (May 9, 2005). "Genus Austropotamobius Skorikow, 1908". Crayfish Taxon Browser. Carnegie Museum of Natural History. http://iz.carnegiemnh.org/crayfish/NewAstacidea/genus.asp?g=Austropotamobius. Retrieved August 11, 2011.
- ^ Alycia L. Rode & Loren E. Babcock (2003). "Phylogeny of fossil and extant freshwater crayfish and some closely related nephropid lobsters". Journal of Crustacean Biology 23 (2): 418–435. doi:10.1651/0278-0372(2003)023[0418:POFAEF]2.0.CO;2. JSTOR 1549646.
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