Cambarus laconensis

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Cambarus laconensis
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Critically Imperiled  (NatureServe) [2]
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Family: Cambaridae
Genus: Cambarus
Species:
C. laconensis
Binomial name
Cambarus laconensis
Buhay & Crandall, 2009 [3]

Cambarus laconensis, the Lacon Exit cave crayfish, [1] [2] is a small, freshwater crayfish endemic to northern Alabama in the United States. It is an underground species known only from a single cave along the southern border of the Highland Rim in the southern Appalachians. [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Crandall, K.A. & Cordeiro, J. (2010). "Cambarus laconensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2010 e.T164914A5937870. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T164914A5937870.en . Retrieved 5 February 2023.
  2. 1 2 "Cambarus laconensis". NatureServe Explorer An online encyclopedia of life. 7.1. NatureServe. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
  3. ↑ Buhay, Jennifer E.; Crandall, Keith A. (2009). "Taxonomic revision of cave crayfish in the genus Cambarus, subgenus Aviticambarus (Decapoda: Cambaridae) with descriptions of two new species, C. speleocoopi and C. laconensis, endemic to Alabama, U.S.A." Journal of Crustacean Biology. 29 (1): 121–134. Bibcode:2009JCBio..29..121B. doi: 10.1651/08-3089.1 . S2CID   83813422.
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