Creaserinus gordoni

Creaserinus gordoni
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Critically Imperiled  (NatureServe) [2]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Family:	Cambaridae
Genus:	Creaserinus
Species:	C. gordoni
Binomial name
Creaserinus gordoni Fitzpatrick, 1987
Synonyms [1]
Fallicambarus gordoni

Creaserinus gordoni, the Camp Shelby burrowing crayfish, is a species of crayfish in the family Cambaridae. It is endemic to Camp Shelby in Mississippi. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

The IUCN conservation status of Creaserinus gordoni is "NT", near threatened. The species may be considered threatened in the near future. The IUCN status was reviewed in 2010. ^[1] The species enjoys some protection under a Candidate Conservation Agreement, between Mississippi National Guard and The Nature Conservancy. ^[5]

References

1. Crandall, K.A.; Eversole, A.G. & Jones, R.L. (2010). "Fallicambarus gordoni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2010 e.T8491A12913393. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T8491A12913393.en . Retrieved 15 October 2023.
2. "Creaserinus gordoni". NatureServe Explorer An online encyclopedia of life. 7.1. NatureServe. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
3. "Creaserinus gordoni". Integrated Taxonomic Information System . Retrieved 2023-10-15.
4. "Creaserinus gordoni". Global Biodiversity Information Facility . Retrieved 2023-10-15.
5. "Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center". The Nature Conservancy. Retrieved 15 October 2023.

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.