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Cambarus laconensis

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Species of crayfish

Cambarus laconensis
Conservation status

Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)

Critically Imperiled  (NatureServe)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Family: Cambaridae
Genus: Cambarus
Species: C. laconensis
Binomial name
Cambarus laconensis
Buhay & Crandall, 2009

Cambarus laconensis, the Lacon Exit cave crayfish, is a small, freshwater crayfish endemic to northern Alabama in the United States. It is an underground species known only from a single cave along the southern border of the Highland Rim in the southern Appalachians.

References

  1. ^ Crandall, K.A. & Cordeiro, J. (2010). "Cambarus laconensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T164914A5937870. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T164914A5937870.en. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
  2. ^ "Cambarus laconensis". NatureServe Explorer An online encyclopedia of life. 7.1. NatureServe. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
  3. Buhay, Jennifer E.; Crandall, Keith A. (2009). "Taxonomic revision of cave crayfish in the genus Cambarus, subgenus Aviticambarus (Decapoda: Cambaridae) with descriptions of two new species, C. speleocoopi and C. laconensis, endemic to Alabama, U.S.A." Journal of Crustacean Biology. 29: 121–134. doi:10.1651/08-3089.1. S2CID 83813422.
Taxon identifiers
Cambarus laconensis
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