Orconectes (Buannulifictus) hobbsi Penn 1950

Keith A. Crandall, James W. Fetzner, Jr., and Horton H. Hobbs, Jr.

Containing group: Orconectes (Buannulifictus)

Types

Holotype, allotype, and morphotype, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. 90952, 90953, 90954 (male I, female, male II); paratypes, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., Department of Zoology, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York.

Type Locality

Headwater creek of Bayou Lacombe at St. Tammany, 6 miles (9.6 km) north of Lacombe on State Route 187, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana.

Range

Lake Pontchartrain watershed in Louisiana and Mississippi.

Habitat

Rapidly flowing streams.

References

Hobbs, H. H. Jr. 1989. An Illustrated Checklist of the American Crayfishes (Decapoda: Astacidae, Cambaridae, and Parastacidae). Smithsonian Institution Press.

Penn, George H., Jr. 1950. A New Orconectes from the Pontchartrain Watershed in Louisiana and Mississippi (Decapoda: Astacidae). Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 40(11): 381-384, figures 1-10.

About This Page

Page constructed by Emily Browne.

Keith A. Crandall
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA

James W. Fetzner, Jr.
Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Horton H. Hobbs, Jr.
Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio, USA

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