Cambarus catagius

Cambarus catagius
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Imperiled  (NatureServe) [2]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Family:	Cambaridae
Genus:	Cambarus
Species:	C. catagius
Binomial name
Cambarus catagius Hobbs & Perkins, 1967

Cambarus catagius, the Greensboro burrowing crayfish, is a species of crayfish in the family Cambaridae. It is found only in a limited area of North Carolina, ^{[3] [4] [1]} where it is considered a species of special conservation concern.

Despite being named the Greensboro burrowing crayfish, the species inhabits a larger geographic range. ^[5]

References

1. Cordeiro, J.; Jones, T. & Thoma, R.F. (2010). "Cambarus catagius". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2010 e.T3674A10015211. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T3674A10015211.en . Retrieved 13 November 2021.
2. "Cambarus catagius ". NatureServe Explorer An online encyclopedia of life. 7.1. NatureServe. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
3. "Cambarus catagius Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2020-01-23.
4. "Cambarus catagius". GBIF. Retrieved 2020-01-23.
5. "Greensboro Burrowing Crayfish | NC Wildlife". www.ncwildlife.gov. Retrieved 2025-06-24.

Further reading

• Hobbs, Horton H. Jr. (1989). "An Illustrated Checklist of the American Crayfishes (Decapoda: Astacidae, Cambaridae, and Parastacidae)" (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology (480): 1–236. doi:10.5479/si.00810282.480.
• Loughman, Z.; Simon, T. (2011). "Zoogeography, taxonomy, and conservation of West Virginia's Ohio River floodplain crayfishes (Decapoda, Cambaridae)". ZooKeys (74): 1–78. Bibcode:2011ZooK...74....1L. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.74.808 . PMC   3088040 . PMID   21594135.
• Nizinski, Martha S. (2003). "Annotated checklist of decapod crustaceans of Atlantic coastal and continental shelf waters of the United States" (PDF). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 116 (1): 96–157. ISSN   0006-324X.