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Cambarus (Puncticambarus) acuminatus Faxon 1884

Keith A. Crandall, James W. Fetzner, Jr., and Horton H. Hobbs, Jr.
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Cambarus (Puncticambarus) acuminatus habitus
Containing group: Cambarus (Puncticambarus)

Types

Syntypes, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 3624 (female). "Cotypes" formerly said to have been at Butler University (Faxon, 1914:424) are no longer there.

Type Locality

Saluda River, at Farr's Mills, west of Greenville, Greenville County, South Carolina.

Range

Patapsco Basin in Maryland southward to the Saluda drainage system in South Carolina.

Habitat

Streams.

Remarks

This highly variable species is also in need of attention. Even in the Santee Cooper Basin (of which the Saluda River is a tributary), South Carolina, more than one rather distince "variant" is recognizable.

References

Faxon, Walter. 1884. Descriptions of New Species of Cambarus, to Which is Added a Synonymical List of the Known Species of Cambarus and Astacus. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 20: 107-158.

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.

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

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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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