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**''[[Austropotamobius pallipes]]'' — white-clawed crayfish
**''[[Austropotamobius pallipes]]'' — white-clawed crayfish
**''[[Austropotamobius torrentium]]'' — stone crayfish
**''[[Austropotamobius torrentium]]'' — stone crayfish
**''Austropotamobius bihariensis'' — idle crayfish
**''[[Austropotamobius bihariensis]]'' — idle crayfish
*''[[Pacifastacus]]''
*''[[Pacifastacus]]''
**''[[Pacifastacus chenoderma]]''
**''[[Pacifastacus chenoderma]]''

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Astacidae
Astacus astacus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Superfamily: Astacoidea
Family: Astacidae
Latreille, 1802–1803
Genera

The family Astacidae comprises the freshwater crayfish native to Europe and western North America. It is made up of three genera. Pacifastacus is found on the Pacific coast of the United States and British Columbia and includes the signal crayfish and the Shasta crayfish. The genera Astacus and Austropotamobius are both found throughout Europe and parts of western Asia.

Species

The family Astacidae contains 13 species in three genera :[1][2]

References

  1. ^ James W. Fetzner, Jr. (2005-05-09). "Family Astacidae Latreille, 1802-1803". Crayfish Taxon Browser. Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Archived from the original on 2015-02-11. Retrieved 2007-08-20. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |dead-url= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ 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.