Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Eucarida > Order Decapoda > Suborder Pleocyemata > Infraorder Astacidea > Superfamily Astacoidea > Family Cambaridae

Orconectes Cope, 1872

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Orconectes immunis (Hagen, 1870)

Literature

original description	Cope, E.D. (1872). On the Wyandotte Cave and its fauna. American Naturalist. 6: 406-422.
basis of record	Crandall, K.A.; De Grave, S. (2017). An updated classification of the freshwater crayfishes (Decapoda: Astacidea) of the world, with a complete species list. Journal of Crustacean Biology. 37: 615-653.
additional source	Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
taxonomy source	Hobbs, H.H.Jr. (1989). An illustrated checklist of the crayfishes of American crayfishes (Decapoda: Astacidae, Cambaridae, and Parastacidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-92.
taxonomy source	Fitzpatrick, J.F.Jr. (1987). The subgenera of the crawfish genus Orconectes (Decapoda: Cambaridae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 100: 44-74.

Genbank

Citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Orconectes Cope, 1872. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:234097

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Orconectes Cope, 1872. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/d0e762de-1b6b-4722-ab49-6cc6d9a62e33