Robert B. McCormack

Robert B. McCormack, Australian carcinologist.

Australian Crayfish Project, c/- Australian Aquatic Biological Pty Ltd, P.O. Box 3, Karuah, NSW, 2324, Australia
Australian Aquatic Biological Pty Ltd, PO Box 3, Karuah, NSW, 2324, Australia
RBM Aquaculture, PO Box 3, Karuah, NSW, 2324, Australia
Mid West Yabby & Fish Traders, PO Box 3, Karuah, NSW, 2324, Australia
Australian Silver Perch, PO Box 3, Karuah, NSW, 2324, Australia
Research Associate, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Section of Invertebrate Zoology, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-4080 USA
Secretary/Treasurer, NSW Aquaculture Association Inc., PO Box 3, Karuah, NSW 2324, Australia

Taxon names authored

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1 taxon names authored by Robert B. McCormack

Publications

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McCormack, R.B. & Coughran, J. 2008. Euastacus maccai, a new freshwater crayfish from the Great Dividing Range, New South Wales. Fishes of Sahul 22(4): 471–476.
Coughran, J., McCormack, R.B. & Daly, G. 2009. Translocation of the Yabby, Cherax destructor, into eastern drainages of New South Wales, Australia. Australian Zoologist 35(1). DOI: 10.7882/AZ.2009.009
O'Brien, A., Coughran, J. & McCormack, R.B. 2009. On the existence of Cherax rotundus in the Severn area, south-eastern Queensland. Queensland Naturalist 47(4–6): 41–51.
McCormack, R.B., Coughran, J., Furse, J. & van der Werf, P. 2010. Conservation Of Imperiled Crayfish - Euastacus jagara (Decapoda: Parastacidae), a highland crayfish from the Main Range, South-Eastern Queensland, Australia. Journal of Crustacean Biology 30(3). DOI: 10.1651/09-3207.1
Coughran, J. & McCormack, R.B. 2011. Euastacus morgani sp. n., a new spiny crayfish (Crustacea, Decapoda, Parastacidae) from the highland rainforests of eastern New South Wales, Australia. ZooKeys 85: 17–26. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.85.1237 Reference page.
McCormack, R.B. & Coughran, J. 2011. Taxonomy, distribution and ecology of the Setose Yabby, Cherax setosus (Riek 1951). Crustacean Research No. 40: 1–11, 2011.
McCormack, R.B. & Van der Werf, P. 2013. The distribution, ecology and conservation status of Euastacus urospinosus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Parastacidae), a dwarf freshwater crayfish from the Mary and Brisbane River drainages, south-eastern Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum — Nature 56(2): 639–646.
McCormack, R.B. 2013. Conservation of Imperiled Crayfish, Euastacus dharawalus (Decapoda: Astacidea: Parastacidae), from the southern highlands of New South Wales, Australia. Journal of Crustacean Biology 33(3), 432–439, 2013. DOI: 10.1163/1937240X-00002138
McCormack, R.B. 2014. New records and review of the translocation of the yabby Cherax destructor into eastern drainages of New South Wales, Australia. Australian Zoologist 37(1) 85–94. DOI: 10.7882/AZ.2014.006
St. Lawrence, A., Wright, I.A., McCormack, R.B., Day, C., Smith, G. & Crane, B. 2014. Bifenthrin pesticide contamination: impacts and recovery at Jamison Creek, Wentworth Falls, in: Vietz, G., Rutherfurd, I.D & Hughes, R. (editors), Proceedings of the 7th Australian Stream Management Conference. Townsville, Queensland, Pages 558–567.
McCormack, R.B. 2014. The eastern swamp crayfish Gramastacus lacus sp. n. (Decapoda, Parastacidae) a new species of freshwater crayfish from coastal New South Wales, Australia. ZooKeys 398: 53–67. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.398.7544
McCormack, R.B. 2015. Conservation of imperiled crayfish, Euastacus clarkae Morgan, 1997 (Decapoda: Parastacidae), a highland crayfish from the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia’s World Heritage Area. Journal of Crustacean Biology 35(2): 282–291. DOI: 10.1163/1937240X-00002315
Coughran, J., McCormack, R.B. & Fetzner Jr., J.W. 2015. Re-description of the Orbost spiny crayfish, Euastacus diversus Riek 1969 (Decapoda: Parastacidae), in eastern Victoria, Australia. Freshwater Crayfish 21(1): 185–197.
McCormack, R.B. & Kawai, T. 2016. Crayfish plague Aphanomyces astaci in Japan and the growing threat to Australia. Crayfish News 38(4): 5–10.
McCormack, R.B. & Ahyong, S.T. 2017. Euastacus vesper sp. nov., a new giant spiny crayfish (Crustacea, Decapoda, Parastacidae) from the Great Dividing Range, New South Wales, Australia. Zootaxa 4244(4): 566–567. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4244.4.6 Reference page.
Mos, B., Ahyong, S.T., Burnes, C.N., Davie, P.J.F. & McCormack, R.B. 2017. Range extension of a euryhaline crab, Varuna litterata (Fabricius, 1798) (Brachyura: Varunidae), in a climate change hot-spot'. Journal of Crustacean Biology 37(3): 258–262. DOI: 10.1093/jcbiol/rux030