Biology:Austropotamobius

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Short description: Genus of crayfishes

Austropotamobius
Temporal range: Barremian–Recent
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Austropotamobius torrentium
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Family: Astacidae
Genus: Austropotamobius
Skorikow, 1907
Type species
Cancer torrentium
Schrank, 1803

Austropotamobius is a genus of European crayfish in the family Astacidae. It contains four extant species,[1][2] and one species known from fossils of Barremian age:[3]

References

  1. 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). doi:10.1093/jcbiol/rux070. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Pârvulescu, Lucian (2019). "Introducing a new Austropotamobius crayfish species (Crustacea, Decapoda, Astacidae): A Miocene endemism of the Apuseni Mountains, Romania" (in en). Zoologischer Anzeiger 279: 94–102. doi:10.1016/j.jcz.2019.01.006. 
  3. Alycia L. Rode & Loren E. Babcock (2003). "Phylogeny of fossil and extant freshwater crayfish and some closely related nephropid lobsters". Journal of Crustacean Biology 23 (2): 418–435. doi:10.1651/0278-0372(2003)023[0418:POFAEF2.0.CO;2]. 

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