Orconectes (Hespericambarus) difficilis
Keith A. Crandall, James W. Fetzner, Jr., and Horton H. Hobbs, Jr.Types
Syntypes, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. 19687 (9 male I, 10 female, 5 male II), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. 19688 (male I), Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 4359 (male I, female, male II), Instituto e Museo de Zoologia, Della Universita di Torino, Italy.Range
Pittsburg and Latimer counties, Oklahoma, Upshur County, Texas to Washington County, Arkansas, southeastward into Louisiana (see Walls, 1972).References
Faxon, Walter. 1898. Observations on the Astacidae in the United States National Museum and in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, with Descriptions of New Species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 20(1136): 643-694, plates 62-70.
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): 449-458, figures 1-4.
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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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