Orconectes (Hespericambarus) blacki Walls 1972

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

Containing group: Orconectes (Hespericambarus)

Types

Holotype, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. 131255 (male I); paratypes, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Department of Zoology, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, Joe B. Black, and Jerry G. Walls.

Type Locality

Bearhead Creek, 4 miles (6.4 km) southwest of Juanita on State Route 109, Beauregard Parish, Louisiana.

Range

Known from only six localities in Beauregard and Calcasieu parishes, Louisiana, and according to Walls 1972:455, intergrading with O. d. hathawayi "in Calcasieu River drainage of Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, and Vernon Parishes, Louisiana." In his recent revision of the genus Orconectes, however, Fitzpatrick (1987a), as noted above, recognized no geographic races of Orconectes (H.) difficilis, according Walls' subspecies specific rank.

Habitat

Streams.

Conservation Status

Category: VU (Vulnerable)
Criteria: B1+2c, D1
Conservation Links:

References

Baillie, Jonathan, and Brian Groombridge. 1996. IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals.

Fitzpatrick, Joseph F., Jr. 1987. The Subgenera of the Crawfish Genus Orconectes (Decapoda: Cambaridae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 100(1): 44-74, figures 1-18.

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

Walls, Jerry G. 1972. Three New Crawfishes Related to Orconectes difficilis (Faxon) (Decapoda: Astacidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 84(53): 449-459, figures 1-4.

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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