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Orconectes (Tragulicambarus)

Orconectes (Tragulicambarus) lancifer

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

Type

Holotype, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 306 (male I).

Type Locality

"Root Pond, Miss." Rocky Ford near Etta, Union County, Mississippi, fide Penn (1939:215).

Range

Known from the coastal plain and Mississippi River floodplain of eastern Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, Kentucky, and extreme southern Illinois.

Habitat

Sluggish streams and lentic situations.

Distribution

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Conservation Status

Currently stable.

Other Names for Orconectes (Tragulicambarus) lancifer

References

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.

Hagen, Hermann A. 1870. Monograph of the North American Astacidae. In Illustrated Catalogue of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 3: viii + 109 pages, 11 plates.

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

Penn, George H., Jr. 1939. The Type Locality of the Crawfish (Faxonius lancifer). American Midland Naturalist, 22(1): 215.

Taylor, C. A., M. L. Warren, Jr., J. F. Fitzpatrick, Jr., H. H. Hobbs III, R. F. Jezerinac, W. L. Pflieger, and H. W. Robison. 1996. Conservation Status of Crayfishes of the United States and Canada. Fisheries 21:4.

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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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