Austropotamobius
Appearance
Austropotamobius Temporal range:
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Austropotamobius torrentium | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Family: | Astacidae |
Genus: | Austropotamobius Skorikow, 1907 |
Type species | |
Cancer torrentium Schrank, 1803
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Austropotamobius is a genus of European crayfish in the family Astacidae. It contains four extant species,[1][2] and one species known from fossils of Barremian age:[3]
- Austropotamobius bihariensis Pârvulescu 2019[2] — Idle crayfish
- Austropotamobius fulcisianus (Ninni, 1886)
- Austropotamobius pallipes (Lereboullet, 1858) — White-clawed crayfish
- Austropotamobius torrentium (Schrank, 1803) — Stone crayfish
- Austropotamobius llopisi (Via, 1971) †
References
- ^ Crandall, Keith A; De Grave, Sammy (2017). "An updated classification of the freshwater crayfishes (Decapoda: Astacidea) of the world, with a complete species list". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 37 (5): 615–653. doi:10.1093/jcbiol/rux070.
- ^ a b Pârvulescu, Lucian (2019). "Introducing a new Austropotamobius crayfish species (Crustacea, Decapoda, Astacidae): A Miocene endemism of the Apuseni Mountains, Romania". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 279: 94–102. doi:10.1016/j.jcz.2019.01.006.
- ^ 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.