Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Eucarida > Order Decapoda > Suborder Macrura Reptantia > Infraorder Astacidea > Superfamily Astacoidea > Family Cambaridae > Subfamily Cambarinae > Genus Orconectes

Orconectes limosus (Rafinesque, 1817)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Astacus Farbricius, 1775

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

OrconectesCope, 1872accepted genus name

Species group names

Astacus limosus Rafinesque, 1817 objective synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 English: spinycheek crayfish sources: McLaughlin, P.A., D.K. Camp, M.V. Angel, E.L. Bousfield, P. Brunel, R.C. Brusca, A.C. Cohen, K. Conlan, L.G. Eldredge, D.L. Felder, J.W. Goy, T. Haney, B. Hann, R.W. Heard, E.A. Hendrycks, H.H. Hobbs III, J.R. Holsinger, B. Kensley, D.R. Laubitz, S.E. Le. 2005. Common and Scientific Names of Aquatic Invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Crustaceans. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 31. 545 pp. plus index. ISBN 1-888569-64-6
 German: Amerikanischer Flusskrebs

Literature

basis of record

Nehring, S. (2006). Four arguments why so many alien species settle into estuaries, with special reference to the German river Elbe. Helgol. Mar. Res. 60(2): 127-134.

additional source

ITIS database

Genbank

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Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE)
Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications)
GenBank (109 nucleotides; 119 proteins)
GBIF
GBIF

Citation

WoRMS (2014). Orconectes limosus (Rafinesque, 1817). In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:234098

David M. Holdich. Orconectes limosus (Rafinesque, 1817). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=238445

Image

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


not marine, not brackish, fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

no data

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GUID

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:234098
urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:238445

Last modified

2010-02-09 by Dr Geoffrey Boxshall & by Ward Appeltans & by David M. Holdich

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