Orconectes (Orconectes) australis packardi Rhoades 1944

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

Containing group: Orconectes (Orconectes)

Types

Holotype, allotype, and "morphotype," National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. 81310, 81312, 81311 (male I, female, male II); paratypes, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., Ohio State Museum, Columbus, Ohio.

Type Locality

Cumberland Crystal Cave (Sloans Valley Cave), Alpine, Pulaski County, Kentucky.

Range

Subterranean waters of the Cumberland River basin in southeastern Kentucky, intergrading with the nominate subspecies in Wayne County, Kentucky, and Fentress County, Tennessee.

Habitat

Subterranean streams and pools.

References

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

Rhoades, Rendell. 1944. The Crayfishes of Kentucky, with Notes on Variation, Distribution and Descriptions of New Species and Subspecies. American Midland Naturalist, 31(1): 111-149, 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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