Fallicambarus (Creaserinus) oryktes Penn and Marlow 1959

Keith A. Crandall, James W. Fetzner, Jr., and Horton H. Hobbs, Jr.

Containing group: Fallicambarus (Creaserinus)

Types

Holotype, allotype, and morphotype, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. 101735, 101736, 101737 (male I, female, male II); paratypes, Department of Zoology, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

Type Locality

Roadside ditch at Alton, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana.

Range

St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, and Forest, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, and Pearl River counties in southern Mississippi eastward to Baldwin County, Alabama.

Habitat

Burrows (primary burrower).

References

Hobbs, H. H. Jr. 1989. An Illustrated Checklist of the American Crayfishes (Decapoda: Astacidae, Cambaridae, and Parastacidae). Smithsonian Institution Press.

Penn, George Henry, Jr. and Guy Marlow. 1959. The Genus Cambarus in Louisiana. American Midland Naturalist, 61(1): 191-203, figures 1-14.

About This Page

Page constructed by Emily Browne.

Keith A. Crandall
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA

James W. Fetzner, Jr.
Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Horton H. Hobbs, Jr.
Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio, USA

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