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Cambarus (Puncticambarus) extraneus Hagen 1870

Chickamanga Crayfish

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

Types

Syntypes, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 175 (3 male II, 1 female), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. 4957 (female). Hagen (1870:74) indecated that among the 6 specimens available there were "Male Form I, and II. Fem." The first form male is no longer among the types and was missing from them when examined in the early 1940s.

Type Locality

"Tennessee River, (near the borders of ?) Georgia" (Hagen, 1870:74). The emendation offered by Ortmann (1931:97) must be rejected because Cambarus (P.) extraneus does not occur in the Coosa (Etowah) Basin. Ortmann confused C. (P.) coosae with Hagen's species.

Range

Known only from the South Chickamauga Creek basin (Tennessee River drainage) in Catoosa, Walker, and Whitfield counties, Georgia, and in the same basin in Hamilton County, Tennessee (Bouchard, 1972b:58).

Habitat

Streams.

Conservation Status

Category: VU (Vulnerable)
Criteria: B1+2c
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Other Names for Cambarus (Puncticambarus) extraneus Hagen 1870

References

Baillie, Jonathan, and Brian Groombridge. 1996. IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals.

Bouchard, Raymond W. 1972. A Contribution to the Knowledge of Tennesee Crayfish. vi + 113 pages, figures 1, 2. Doctoral dissertation, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Hagen, Hermann A. 1870. Monograph of the North American Astacidae. In Illustrated Catalogue of the Musuem of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 3: viii + 109 pages, 11 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.

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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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