Little Brown Mudbug

Lacunicambarus thomai

Classification

Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Family: Cambaridae

Lacunicambarus is a genus of burrowing crayfishes in the family Cambaridae. There are currently 12 described species in Lacunicambarus, all of which are found east of the Continental Divide in North America. The genus was first recognized in 2018 when it was discovered through genetic analyses that the Cambarus subgenera Lacunicambarus and Tubericambarus were not monophyletic on their own, but that when combined they formed a single monophyletic group distinct from Cambarus.

Distribution

Little Brown Mudbug — (c) Theo Rickert, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 40

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Theo Rickert, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionLacunicambarus, Wikipedia contributors

Little Brown Mudbug

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