Austropotamobius

Austropotamobius Temporal range: Barremian–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Austropotamobius torrentium
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Family:	Astacidae
Genus:	Austropotamobius Skorikow, 1907
Type species
Cancer torrentium Schrank, 1803

Austropotamobius is a genus of European crayfish in the family Astacidae. It contains four extant species, ^{[1] [2]}

• Austropotamobius bihariensis Pârvulescu 2019 ^[2] — Idle crayfish
• Austropotamobius fulcisianus (Ninni, 1886)
• Austropotamobius pallipes (Lereboullet, 1858) — White-clawed crayfish
• Austropotamobius torrentium (Schrank, 1803) — Stone crayfish
• Austropotamobius llopisi  ? (Via, 1971) † Las Hoyas (Cuenca prov.), and El Montsec (Lleida prov.), Spain, Early Cretaceous (Barremian) (placement in the genus has been questioned ^[3] )

References

1. Crandall, Keith A; De Grave, Sammy (2017). "An updated classification of the freshwater crayfishes (Decapoda: Astacidea) of the world, with a complete species list". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 37 (5): 615–653. doi: 10.1093/jcbiol/rux070 .
2. Pârvulescu, Lucian (2019). "Introducing a new Austropotamobius crayfish species (Crustacea, Decapoda, Astacidae): A Miocene endemism of the Apuseni Mountains, Romania". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 279: 94–102. doi:10.1016/j.jcz.2019.01.006.
3. Audo, Denis; Hasiotis, Stephen T; Kawai, Tadashi (2023-12-01). "Diversity and evolutionary history of fossil crayfishes" . Journal of Crustacean Biology. 43 (4). doi:10.1093/jcbiol/ruad079. ISSN   0278-0372.