Southern Cave Crayfish

Orconectes australis

Classification

Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Family: Cambaridae

Orconectes australis, the southern cave crayfish, is a species of crayfish in the Cambaridae family found in Alabama and Tennessee. Ages of 176 years have been claimed for O. australis, though this was reduced to ≤22 years in a 2012 study.

Distribution

Southern Cave Crayfish — (c) Neal Kelso, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 29

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Neal Kelso, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionOrconectes australis, Wikipedia contributors

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