Orconectes (Crockerinus) shoupi
Nashville Crayfish
Keith A. Crandall, James W. Fetzner, Jr., and Horton H. Hobbs, Jr.Types
Holotype, allotype, and morphotype, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. 84072 (male I, female, male II); paratypes, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.Type Locality
Mill Creek, tributary of Cumberland River, east of Oglesby near Antioch Pike, 10 miles (16 km) south of Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee.References
Baillie, Jonathan, and Brian Groombridge. 1996. IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals.
Hobbs, H. H. Jr. 1989. An Illustrated Checklist of the American Crayfishes (Decapoda: Astacidae, Cambaridae, and Parastacidae). Smithsonian Institution Press.
Hobbs, Horton H., Jr. 1948. On the Crayfishes of the Limosus Section of the Genus Orconectes (Decapoda, Astacidae). Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 38(1): 14-21, figures 1-28.
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
Correspondence regarding this page should be directed to Keith A. Crandall at
Page copyright © 2001
All Rights Reserved.
Citing this page:
Crandall, Keith A., James W. Fetzner, Jr., and Horton H. Hobbs, Jr. 2001. Orconectes (Crockerinus) shoupi . Nashville Crayfish. Version 01 January 2001 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Orconectes_%28Crockerinus%29_shoupi/7189/2001.01.01 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/
