Cambarus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Astacoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Superclassis: Multicrustacea Classis: Malacostraca Subclassis: Eumalacostraca Superordo: Eucarida Ordo: Decapoda Subordo: Pleocyemata Infraordo: Astacidea Superfamilia: Astacoidea

Familia: Cambaridae
Genus: Cambarus
Subgenera (12): C. (Aviticambarus) – C. (Cambarus) – C. (Depressicambarus) – C. (Erebicambarus) – C. (Exilicambarus) – C. (Glareocola) – C. (Hiaticambarus) – C. (Jugicambarus) – C. (Lacunicambarus) – C. (Puncticambarus) – C. (Tubericambarus) – C. (Veticambarus)

Overview of species

C. acanthura – C. aculabrum – C. acuminatus – C. appalachiensis – C. asperimanus – C. bartonii – C. batchi – C. bouchardi – C. brachydactylus – C. buntingi – C. callainus – C. carinirostris – C. carolinus – C. catagius – C. causeyi – C. chasmodactylus – C. chaugaensis – C. clairitae – C. conasaugaensis – C. coosae – C. coosawattae – C. cracens – C. crinipes – C. cryptodytes – C. cumberlandensis – C. cymatilis – C. deweesae – C. diogenes – C. distans – C. dubius – C. englishi – C. extraneus – C. fasciatus – C. fetzneri – C. franklini – C. friaufi – C. gentryi – C. georgiae – C. girardianus – C. graysoni – C. guenteri – C. halli – C. hamulatus – C. harti – C. hatfieldi – C. hazardi – C. hiwasseensis – C. howardi – C. hubbsi – C. hubrichti – C. jezerinaci – C. jonesi – C. laevis – C. latimanus – C. longirostris – C. longulus – C. ludovicianus – C. manningi – C. miltus – C. monongalensis – C. nerterius – C. nodosus – C. obeyensis – C. ornatus – C. ortmanni – C. obstipus – C. parrishi – C. parvoculus – C. polypilosus – C. pristinus – C. pyronotus – C. reburrus – C. reduncus – C. reflexus – C. robustus – C. rusticiformis – C. sciotensis – C. scotti – C. setosus – C. speciosus – C. sphenoides – C. spicatus – C. striatus – C. strigosus – C. tartarus – C. taylori – C. tenebrosus – C. truncatus – C. unestami – C. veitchorum – C. veteranus – C. zophonastes

Name

Cambarus Erichson, 1846: 97

Type species: Astacus bartonii Fabricius, 1798
- Fixation: Subsequent designation of Faxon, 1898: 644

References

Primary references

Erichson, W.F. 1846: Uebersicht der Arten der Gattung Astacus. Archiv für Naturgeschichte (Berlin), 12 (1): 86–103. BHL
Faxon, W. 1898: Observations on the Astacidae in the United States National Museum and in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 2O (1136): 643–694, plates 62-70. BHL
Loughman, Z.J., Welsh, S.A. & Thoma, R.F. 2017. Cambarus (C.) appalachiensis, a new species of crayfish (Decapoda: Cambaridae) from the New River Basin of Virginia and West Virginia, USA. Zootaxa 4243(3): 432–454. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4243.3.2. Reference page.
Loughman, Z.J. & Williams, B.W. 2018. Cambarus polypilosus, a new species of stream-dwelling crayfish (Decapoda: Cambaridae) from the Western Highland Rim of Tennessee, USA. Zootaxa 4403(1): 171–185. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4403.1.10 Reference page.
Schuster, G.A. & Taylor, C.A. 2016. Cambarus (Depressicambarus) clairitae, a new species of crayfish (Decapoda: Cambaridae) from Alabama with a review of the halli Group in the subgenus Depressicambarus. Zootaxa 4193(2): 332–346. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4193.2.8. Reference page.
Thoma, R.F., Loughman, Z.J. & Fetzner, J.W. Jr. 2014. Cambarus (Puncticambarus) callainus, a new species of crayfish (Decapoda: Cambaridae) from the Big Sandy River basin in Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia, USA. Zootaxa 3900(4): 541–554. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3900.4.5 Reference page.

Additional references

Bouchard, R.W. & J.W. Bouchard 1995: Two new species and subgenera (Cambarus and Orconectes) of crayfishes (Decapoda: Cambaridae) from the eastern United States. Notulae Naturae 471: 1–21.
Bouchard, R.W., & H.H. Hobbs, Jr. 1976: A New Subgenus and Two New Species of Crayfishes of the Genus Cambarus (Decapoda: Cambaridae) from the Southeastern United States. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 224: 1–15. Full article: [1].
Jezerinac, R.F. 1993: A new subgenus and species of crayfish (Decapoda: Cambaridae) of the genus Cambarus, with an amended description of the subgenus Lacunicambarus.Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 106: 532–544.
Hobbs, H.H., Jr. 1965: A New Crayfish of the Genus Cambarus from Tennessee with an Emended Definition of the Genus (Decapoda, Astacidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 79(15): 109–116
Hobbs, H.H., Jr. 1969: On the Distribution and Phylogeny of the Crayfish Genus Cambarus. In Perry C. Holt, Richard L. Hoffman, and C. Willard Hart, Jr., The Distributional History of the Biota of the Southern Appalachians, Part I: Invertebrates. Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Research Division Monograph, 1: 93–178.
Hobbs, H. H. Jr. 1989: An Illustrated Checklist of the American Crayfishes (Decapoda: Astacidae, Cambaridae, and Parastacidae). Smithsonian Institution Press. 480: 1–236. PDF.
Loughman, Z.J. et al. 2013: Cambarus (P.) theepiensis, a new species of crayfish (Decapoda:Cambaridae) from the coalfields region of Eastern Kentucky and Southwestern West Virginia, USA. Zootaxa 3641(1): 63–73. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3641.1.7 Reference page.
Loughman, Z.J. et al. 2013: Cambarus (C.) hatfieldi, a new species of crayfish (Decapoda: Cambaridae) from the Tug Fork River Basin of Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia, USA. Zootaxa 3750(3): 223–236. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3750.3.3 Reference page.
Looughman, Z.J., Henkanaththegedara, S.M., Fetzner, J.W. Jr & Thoma, R.F. 2017. A case of Appalachian endemism: Revision of the Cambarus robustus complex (Decapoda: Cambaridae) in the Kentucky and Licking River basins of Kentucky, USA, with the description of three new species. Zootaxa 4269(4): 460–494. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4269.4.4. Reference page.
Loughman, Z.J., Welsh, S.A. & Thoma, R.F. 2019. Cambarus fetzneri sp. nov., a new species of burrowing crayfish (Decapoda: Cambaridae) from the Allegheny Mountains of Virginia and West Virginia, USA. Zootaxa 4651(1): 38–50. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4651.1.2 Reference page.
Perkins, M.A., Williams, B.W. & Russ, W.T. 2019. Cambarus franklini, a new crayfish (Decapoda: Cambaridae) from the Catawba River Basin in western North Carolina, USA. Zootaxa 4568(3): 520–532. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4568.3.6 Reference page.
Williams, BW., Delekta, E.M. & Loughman, Z.J. 2019. Redescription and circumscription of the Acuminate Crayfish, Cambarus acuminatus Faxon, 1884 (Decapoda: Cambaridae). Zootaxa 4560(1): 40–50. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4560.1.2 Reference page.