Cambarus (Hiaticambarus) longirostris Faxon 1885

Keith A. Crandall, James W. Fetzner, Jr., and Horton H. Hobbs, Jr.

Containing group: Cambarus (Hiaticambarus)

Types

Holotype, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 3629 (male II).

Type Locality

"Eastern Tennessee and West Virginia" (Faxon, 1885a). Restricted to Doe River, Elizabethton, Carter County, Tennessee, designated by Ortmann, 1931:121.

Range

Tennessee River Basin upstream from below the mouth of the Sequatchie River: in Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virgina. Introduced into headwaters of the Savannah River in South Carolina.

Habitat

Rocky segments of streams.

References

Faxon, Walter. 1885. A Revision of the Astacidae, Part I: The Genera Cambarus and Astacus. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 10(4): vi + 186 pages, 10 plates.

Hobbs, H. H. Jr. 1989. An Illustrated Checklist of the American Crayfishes (Decapoda: Astacidae, Cambaridae, and Parastacidae). Smithsonian Institution Press.

Ortmann, A.E. 1931. Crawfishes of the Southern Appalachians and the Cumberland Plateau. Annals of the Carnegie Museum, 20(2): 61-160.

About This Page

Page constructed by Emily Browne.

Keith A. Crandall
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA

James W. Fetzner, Jr.
Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Horton H. Hobbs, Jr.
Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio, USA

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