Cambarus harti

Cambarus harti
Conservation status
Endangered  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Critically Imperiled  (NatureServe) [2]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Family:	Cambaridae
Genus:	Cambarus
Species:	C. harti
Binomial name
Cambarus harti Hobbs, 1981 [3]

Cambarus harti, the Piedmont blue burrower, ^[2] is a species of burrowing crayfish in the family Cambaridae. It is endemic to Georgia ^[2] in the United States. ^{[3] [4] [1]} The common name refers to the Piedmont plateau region.

The IUCN conservation status of Cambarus harti is "EN", endangered. The species faces a high risk of extinction in the near future. The IUCN status was reviewed in 2010. ^[1]

References

1. Cordeiro, J.; Skelton, C. & Thoma, R.F. (2010). "Cambarus harti". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2010 e.T3696A10022695. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T3696A10022695.en . Retrieved 11 November 2021.
2. "Cambarus harti". NatureServe Explorer An online encyclopedia of life. 7.1. NatureServe. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
3. "Cambarus harti". Integrated Taxonomic Information System . Retrieved 2023-02-27.
4. "Cambarus harti". GBIF. Retrieved 2020-01-23.

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.