Cherax

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Parastacoidea
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: Parastacoidea

Familia: Parastacidae
Genus: Cherax
Subgenera: C. (Astaconephrops)

Species: C. acherontis – C. albertisii – C. albidus – C. alyciae – C. angustus – C. aruanus – C. austini – C. barretti – C. bicarinatus – C. boschmai – C. buitendijkae – C. cainii – C. cairnsensis – C. cartalacoolah – C. cid – C. communis – C. crassimanus – C. cuspidatus – C. davisi – C. depressus – C. destructor – C. dispar – C. divergens – C. esculus – C. gherardiae – C. glaber – C. glabrimanus – C. gladstonensis – C. longipes – C. lorentzi – C. misolicus – C. monticola – C. mosessalossa – C. murido – C. neocarinatus – C. neopunctatus – C. nucifraga – C. pallidus – C. paniaicus – C. papuanus – C. parvus – C. peknyi – C. plebejus – C. preissii – C. pulcher – C. punctatus – C. quadricarinatus – C. quinquecarinatus – C. rhynchotus – C. robustus – C. rotundus – C. setosus – C. snowden – C. solus – C. tenuimanus – C. urospinosus – C. warsamsonicus – C. wasselli

Name

Cherax Erichson, 1846

References

Erichson, W.F. (1846). Übersicht der Arten der Gattung Astacus. Arch. Naturgesch. xii: 86–103, 375-377.
Lukhaup, C., Eprilurahman, R. & von Rintelen, T. 2017. Cherax warsamsonicus, a new species of crayfish from the Kepala Burung (Vogelkop) peninsula in West Papua, Indonesia (Crustacea, Decapoda, Parastacidae). ZooKeys 660: 151–167. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.660.11847 Reference page.
Lukhaup, C., Eprilurahman, R. & von Ritelen, T. 2017. Corrigenda: Cherax warsamsonicus, a new species of crayfish from the Kepala Burung (Vogelkop) peninsula in West Papua, Indonesia (Crustacea, Decapoda, Parastacidae) ZooKeys 660: 151–167. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.660.11847 ZooKeys 665: 147–148. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.665.12850 . Reference page.
Lukhaup, C., Eprilurahman, R. & von Rintelen, T. 2018. Two new species of crayfish of the genus Cherax from Indonesian New Guinea (Crustacea, Decapoda, Parastacidae). ZooKeys 769: 89–116. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.769.26095. Reference page.
Lukhaup, C., Panteleit, J. & Schrimpf, A. 2015. Cherax snowden, a new species of crayfish (Crustacea, Decapoda, Parastacidae) from the Kepala Burung (Vogelkop) Peninsula in Irian Jaya (West Papua), Indonesia. Zookeys 518: 1–14. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.518.6127 Full article. Reference page.
Patoka, J., Bláha, M. & Kouba, A. 2015. Cherax (Astaconephrops) gherardii, a new crayfish (Decapoda: Parastacidae) from West Papua, Indonesia. Zootaxa 3964(5): 526–536. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3964.5.2 Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Patoka, J., Bláha, M. & Kouba, A. 2017. Cherax acherontis (Decapoda: Parastacidae), the first cave crayfish from the Southern Hemisphere (Papua Province, Indonesia). Zootaxa 4363(1): 137–144. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4363.1.7 Reference page.
Sokol, A. 1988: Morphological variation in relation to the taxonomy of the destructor group of the genus Cherax. Invertebrate taxonomy, 2(1): 55–79. DOI: 10.1071/IT9880055

Vernacular names

English: yabbies
ไทย: กุ้งยับบี้น้ำจืด
中文: 光壳虾属

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