Faxonius stygocaneyi

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Faxonius stygocaneyi
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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: Orconectes
Species:
O. stygocaneyi
Binomial name
Orconectes stygocaneyi
Hobbs, 2001
Synonyms [3]
  • Faxonius stygocaneyi(Hobbs, 2001)

Orconectes stygocaneyi, [3] [4] [5] [1] the Caney Mountain cave crayfish (also called Faxonius stygocaneyi in some schemes) [2] is a small, freshwater crayfish endemic to Missouri in the United States. It is a cave-dwelling species known from only one cave, Mud Cave in Ozark County, Missouri. [6] This cave is Protected as part of the Caney Mountain Conservation Area, [2] which covers 7,899 acres (3,197 ha) of public land administered by the Missouri Department of Conservation.

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Taxonomy

The species was described as Orconectes stygocaneyi Hobbs, 2001. [7] It later appeared in an important catalog as Faxonius stygocaneyi (Hobbs, 2001) [8] , but genetic data later supported affinity genus Orconectes, and even with data from the 16S rRNA fragment as a close ally of its type species Orconectes inermis Cope, 1872. [9]

References

  1. 1 2 Elliott, R. & DiStefano, R. (2010). "Orconectes stygocaneyi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2010 e.T153857A4554618. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T153857A4554618.en . Retrieved 22 February 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 "Faxonius stygocaneyi". NatureServe Explorer An online encyclopedia of life. 7.1. NatureServe. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
  3. 1 2 "Orconectes stygocaneyi". Decanet. Retrieved 5 February 2026.
  4. ↑ "Orconectes stygocaneyi". WoRMs. Retrieved 5 February 2026.
  5. ↑ "Orconectes stygocaneyi". iNaturalist. Retrieved 5 February 2026.
  6. ↑ Ellingsworth, Emila A.; DiStefano, R.J.; Westhoff, J.T.; O'Brian, B.M. (2024). "The endangered Caney Mountain cave crayfish: A preliminary study of its habitat with brief life history notes". Freshwater Crayfish. 29 (1): 121–132. doi: 10.5869/fc.2024.v29-1.121 .
  7. ↑ Hobbs, H.H. (III). (2001). "A new cave crayfish of the genus Orconectes, subgenus Orconectes, from Southcentral Missouri, U.S.A., with a key to the stygobitic species of the genus (Decapoda, Cambaridae)". Crustaceana. 74 (7): 635–646. doi: 10.1093/jcbiol/rux070 .
  8. ↑ 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. 2017: 1–39. doi: 10.1093/jcbiol/rux070 .
  9. ↑ Dooley, Katherine E.; Kendall Niemiller, K. Denise; Sturm, Nathaniel; Niemiller, Matthew L. (2022). "Rediscovery and phylogenetic analysis of the Shelta Cave Crayfish (Orconectes sheltae Cooper & Cooper, 1997), a decapod (Decapoda, Cambaridae) endemic to Shelta Cave in northern Alabama, USA". Subterranean Biology. 43: 11–31. doi: 10.3897/subtbiol.43.79993 .

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