Biology:Astacidae

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Short description: Family of crayfishes

Astacidae
Temporal range: Paleocene–Recent
Crayfisch Astacus astacus.jpg
Astacus astacus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Astacidea
Superfamily: Astacoidea
Family: Astacidae
Latreille, 1802
Genera

Astacidae is a family of freshwater crayfish native to Europe, western Asia and western North America. The family is made up of four extant (living) genera: The genera Astacus (which includes the European crayfish), Pontastacus (which includes the Turkish crayfish), and Austropotamobius are all found throughout Europe and parts of western Asia, while Pacifastacus (which includes the signal crayfish) is native to western United States and British Columbia, but has also been introduced elsewhere.

Classification and phylogeny

Astacidae belongs to the superfamily Astacoidea, which contains all crayfish in the Northern Hemisphere. Astacoidea is the sister taxon to Parastacoidea, which contains all crayfish of the Southern Hemisphere. Crayfish and lobsters together comprise the infraorder Astacidea, as shown in the simplified cladogram below:[1][2][3]

Astacidea
clawed lobsters
Enoplometopoidea

Enoplometopidae

Nephropoidea

Nephropidae

crayfish
Parastacoidea

Parastacidae

Astacoidea

Cambaroididae

Astacidae

Cambaridae

The internal phylogeny of Astacidae can be further shown in the cladogram below:[2]

Astacidae

Pacifastacus

Astacus

Pontastacus

Austropotamobius

Species

The family Astacidae contains the following genera and species:[2]

  • Astacus Fabricius, 1775
    • Astacus astacus (Linnaeus, 1775) - Europe - "European crayfish"
    • Astacus balcanicus (Karaman, 1929) - Republic of Macedonia and Greece
    • Astacus colchicus Kessler, 1876 - Georgia (country)
    • ?Astacus edwardsii Van Straelen, 1928 - France - proposed to new genus Emplastron in 2021 study[4]
    • Astacus laevissimus Fritsch & Kafka, 1887 - Czech Republic
    • Astacus multicavatus Bell, 1863 - United Kingdom
  • Austropotamobius Skorikov, 1907
  • Emplastron O'Flynn, Audo & Kawai, 2021[4]
  • Pacifastacus Bott, 1950
    • Pacifastacus chenoderma (Cope, 1871) - Idaho, USA
    • Pacifastacus connectens (Faxon, 1914) - Idaho, USA
    • Pacifastacus fortis (Faxon, 1914) - California , USA - "Shasta crayfish"
    • Pacifastacus gambelii (Girard, 1852) - California, USA
    • Pacifastacus leniusculus (Dana, 1852) - Columbia River, west coast of North America - "signal crayfish"
    • Pacifastacus nigrescens (Stimpson, 1857) - around San Francisco , California, USA - "sooty crayfish" (recently extinct)
  • Pontastacus Bott, 1950
    • Pontastacus cubanicus (Birstein & Vinogradov, 1934) - Black Sea, Russia
    • Pontastacus danubialis Brodsky, 1981 - Danube Delta lakes, Ukraine
    • Pontastacus daucinus Brodsky, 1981 - Danube Delta lakes, Ukraine and Moldova
    • Pontastacus eichwaldi (Bott, 1950) - Caspian Sea
    • Pontastacus kessleri (Schimkewitsch, 1886) - Turkestan
    • Pontastacus leptodactylus (Eschscholtz, 1823) - around the Black Sea, in Crimea, Russia , and Turkey - "Turkish crayfish"
    • Pontastacus pachypus (Rathke, 1837) - Caspian Sea, Black Sea, Sea of Azov - "Caspian crayfish"
    • Pontastacus pylzowi (Skorikov, 1907) - eastern part of Transcaucasia
    • Pontastacus salinus (von Nordmann, 1842) - Black Sea

References

  1. Wolfe, Joanna M.; Breinholt, Jesse W.; Crandall, Keith A.; Lemmon, Alan R.; Lemmon, Emily Moriarty; Timm, Laura E.; Siddall, Mark E.; Bracken-Grissom, Heather D. (24 April 2019). "A phylogenomic framework, evolutionary timeline and genomic resources for comparative studies of decapod crustaceans". Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286 (1901). doi:10.1098/rspb.2019.0079. PMID 31014217. PMC 6501934. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2019.0079. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Crandall, Keith A.; De Grave, Sammy (2017). "An updated classification of the freshwater crayfishes (Decapoda: Astacidea) of the world, with a complete species list". Journal of Crustacean Biology 37 (5): 615–653. doi:10.1093/jcbiol/rux070. 
  3. Heather D. Bracken-Grissom; Shane T. Ahyong; Richard D. Wilkinson; Rodney M. Feldmann; Carrie E. Schweitzer; Jesse W. Breinholt; Matthew Bendall; Ferran Palero et al. (July 2014). "The Emergence of Lobsters: Phylogenetic Relationships, Morphological Evolution and Divergence Time Comparisons of an Ancient Group (Decapoda: Achelata, Astacidea, Glypheidea, Polychelida)". Systematic Biology 63 (4): 457–479. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syu008. PMID 24562813. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 O'Flynn, Robert J.; Audo, Denis; Kawai, Tadashi (2021-10-01). "Systematic Revision and Palaeobiology of Emplastron edwardsi (Van Straelen, 1928) gen. et comb. nov. (Crustacea, Decapoda, Astacidae) Entombed within Travertine, from Sézanne, France". Paleontological Research 25 (4). doi:10.2517/2021PR007. ISSN 1342-8144. https://bioone.org/journals/paleontological-research/volume-25/issue-4/2021PR007/Systematic-Revision-and-Palaeobiology-of-Emplastron-edwardsi-Van-Straelen-1928/10.2517/2021PR007.full. 

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