Biology:Cambarus smilax

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Short description: Species of crayfish

Cambarus smilax

Imperiled (NatureServe)[1]
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Family: Cambaridae
Genus: Cambarus
Species:
C. smilax
Binomial name
Cambarus smilax
(Loughman, Simon, and Welch, 2011)

Cambarus smilax, the Greenbrier crayfish, is a crayfish in the order Decapoda, family Cambaridae, genus Cambarus. It is most closely related to Cambarus robustus. It is endemic to the Greenbrier River watershed in Pocahontas, Greenbrier, and Monroe counties in West Virginia.[1] It gets its common name from the Greenbrier River. It was described as a new crayfish species in 2011.[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Cambarus smilax". NatureServe. https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.907126/Cambarus_smilax. Retrieved 27 November 2022. 
  2. Loughman, Zachary J.; Simon, Thomas P.; Welsh, Stuart A. (2 August 2011). "Cambarus (Puncticambarus) smilax, a new species of crayfish (Crustacea: Decapoda: Cambaridae) from the Greenbrier River basin of West Virginia". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 124 (2): 99–111. doi:10.2988/10-09.1. 

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