West Virginia's crayfishes have received moderate attention since publication of Jezerinac et al.'s (1995) monograph of the state fauna. Survey efforts were initiated over the summers of 2006 and 2007 ...

A new paper published in the Journal of Crustacean Biology provides an updated classification system that includes all the known crayfishes worldwide. This makes available a single, comprehensive ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va.— In response to a petition from the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today protected two species of crayfish from Appalachia under the Endangered ...

DENVER— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed today to protect a rare plant in southwestern Colorado and two crayfishes in a single watershed in Missouri as threatened under the Endangered ...

They have a myriad of names. In Australia people call them yabbies. In the Mississippi Delta you may hear them called mudbugs and, in other parts of the South, ditchbugs. Crayfish, crawfish, crawdads, ...

Over seventy percent of the world’s freshwater crayfish species are found within the United States, and much of this diversity is concentrated in the southeastern United States. Yet many of these ...

This alphabetical list consists of the names of all of the American crayfishes, including two fossil species, that were described prior to 1 January 1988. In the treatment accorded each specific or ...

Researchers have discovered two new species of burrowing crayfishes in southwestern Alabama and southeastern Mississippi: the Lonesome Gravedigger (Lacunicambarus mobilensis) and the Banded Mudbug (L.

Sixty-six species and subspecies, 18 of which are endemic, comprise the crayfish fauna of Georgia: the genera Cambarus represented by 33, Fallicambarus and Faxonella by 1 each, Orconectes by 3, and ...

ON May 13, 1883, I chanced to enter a meadow a few miles above Washington, on the Virginia side of the Potomac, at the head of a small stream emptying into the river. It was between two hills, at an ...