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Orconectes (Gremicambarus) compressus Faxon 1884

Keith A. Crandall, James W. Fetzner, Jr., and Horton H. Hobbs, Jr.
Containing group: Orconectes (Gremicambarus)

Types

Syntypes, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. 4878 (11 male I, 13 female), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. 4879 (5 male I, 3 female, 1 male II), Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 3583 (3 male I, 2 female, 1 male II).

Type Locality

Lauderdale County, Alabama. Restricted by Faxon (1914:419).

Range

Tennessee River basin, below Walden Ridge, in Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee; Cumberland River basin in Tennessee and Kentucky; and the Barren River watershed in Tennessee and Kentucky.

Habitat

Clear, rock- or gravel-bedded streams.

References

Faxon, Walter. 1884. Descriptions of New Species of Cambarus, to Which is Added a Synonymical List of the Known Species of Cambarus and Astacus. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 20: 107-158.

Faxon, Walter. 1914. Notes on the Crayfishes in the United States National Museum and the Museum of Comparative Zoology with Descriptions of New Species and Subspecies to Which is Appended a Catalogue of the Known Species and Subspecies. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 40(8): 351-427, 13 plates.

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

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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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