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Cambaridae

Index Cambaridae

Cambaridae is the largest of the three families of freshwater crayfish, with over 400 species. [1]

25 relations: Astacidae, Barbicambarus, Bouchardina, Cambarellus, Cambaroides, Cambarus, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Continental Divide of the Americas, Crayfish, Cuba, Distocambarus, Fallicambarus, Family (biology), Faxonella, Fresh water, Guatemala, Hobbseus, Horton H. Hobbs Jr., Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, Orconectes, Paraphyly, Procambarus, Procambarus clarkii, Rusty crayfish, Troglocambarus.

Astacidae

The family Astacidae comprises the freshwater crayfish native to Europe and western North America.

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Barbicambarus

Barbicambarus is a genus of freshwater crayfish found in Tennessee and Kentucky in the United States.

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Bouchardina

Bouchardina is a genus of North American crayfish, containing a single species, Bouchardina robisoni (Bayou Bodcau Crayfish) which is named after one of the scientist who found it Henry W. Robison.

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Cambarellus

Cambarellus is a genus of small freshwater crayfish in the family Cambaridae.

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Cambaroides

Cambaroides is a genus of freshwater crayfish from eastern Asia (eastern Russia, northeastern China, Korean Peninsula and Japan).

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Cambarus

Cambarus is a large and diverse genus of North American crayfish.

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Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Carnegie Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as CMNH) located at 4400 Forbes Avenue in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, was founded by the Pittsburgh-based industrialist Andrew Carnegie in 1896.

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Continental Divide of the Americas

The Continental Divide of the Americas (also known as the Great Divide, the Continental Gulf of Division, or merely the Continental Divide) is the principal, and largely mountainous, hydrological divide of the Americas.

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Crayfish

Crayfish, also known as crawfish, crawdads, crawldads, freshwater lobsters, mountain lobsters, mudbugs or yabbies, are freshwater crustaceans resembling small lobsters, to which they are related; taxonomically, they are members of the superfamilies Astacoidea and Parastacoidea.

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Cuba

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is a country comprising the island of Cuba as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos.

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Distocambarus

Distocambarus is a genus of freshwater crayfish endemic to Georgia and South Carolina in the United States.

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Fallicambarus

Fallicambarus is a genus of crayfish in the family Cambaridae from the United States and Canada.

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Family (biology)

In biological classification, family (familia, plural familiae) is one of the eight major taxonomic ranks; it is classified between order and genus.

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Faxonella

Faxonella is a genus of crayfish from the Southern United States from Texas to Florida.

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Fresh water

Fresh water (or freshwater) is any naturally occurring water except seawater and brackish water.

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Guatemala

Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala (República de Guatemala), is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize to the northeast, the Caribbean to the east, Honduras to the east and El Salvador to the southeast.

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Hobbseus

Hobbseus is a genus of crayfish in the family Cambaridae.

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Horton H. Hobbs Jr.

Horton Holcombe Hobbs Jr. (March 29, 1914 – March 22, 1994) was an American taxonomist and carcinologist, specialising in freshwater decapods.

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Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research

Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research is a quarterly, peer reviewed, scientific journal, published by Wiley-Blackwell.

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Orconectes

Orconectes is a genus of freshwater crayfish, native to the eastern United States and Canada.

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Paraphyly

In taxonomy, a group is paraphyletic if it consists of the group's last common ancestor and all descendants of that ancestor excluding a few—typically only one or two—monophyletic subgroups.

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Procambarus

Procambarus is a genus of crayfish in the family Cambaridae, all native to North and Central America.

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Procambarus clarkii

Procambarus clarkii is a species of cambarid freshwater crayfish, native to northern Mexico, and southern and southeastern United States, but also introduced elsewhere (both in North America and other continents), where it is often an invasive pest.

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Rusty crayfish

The rusty crayfish (Orconectes rusticus) is a large, aggressive species of freshwater crayfish which is native to the United States.

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Troglocambarus

Troglocambarus is a monotypic genus of troglobitic crayfish, endemic to Florida.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambaridae

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