Cambarus (Hiaticambarus) longulus Girard 1852

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

Containing group: Cambarus (Hiaticambarus)

Types

Probably destroyed in the Chicago fire, 1871 (Faxon, 1914:124).

Type Locality

"Middle States" (Girard, 1852). South River, Waynesboro, Augusta County, Virgina, designated by Ortmann, 1931. Emended by Hobbs (1967a:129) to Rickfish River, south of Afton, Nelson County, Virginia.

Range

Atlantic watershed from the James drainage in Virginia and West Virginia south to the Yadkin Basin in North Carolina, in mountains and piedmont.

Habitat

Rocky areas of streams.

References

Faxon, Walter. 1914. Notes on the Crayfishes in the United States National Museum and the Museum of Comparative Zoology with Descriptions of New Species and Subspecies to Which is Appended a Catalogue of the Known Species and Subspecies. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 40(8): 351-427, 13 plates.

Girard, Charles. 1852. A Revision of the North American Astaci, with Observations on Their Habits and Geographical Distribution. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 6: 87-91.

Hobbs, Horton H., Jr. 1967. The Current Status of the Crayfishes Listed by Girard (1852) in His "A Revision of the North American Astaci...." Crustaceana, 12(2): 124-132.

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 Applachians 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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