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Euastacus simplex Riek 1956

Keith A. Crandall
Containing group: Euastacus

Types

Holotype, Australian Museum, Sydney P13048 (male); allotype, Australian Museum, Sydney P34090 (female); paratype, Australian Museum, Sydney P34091 (female).

Type Locality

New South Wales, 15 miles north of Armidale.

Distribution

The species ranges from 25 km west of Dorrigo, 90 km to the Armidale and Guyra areas of New South Wales and one specimen from near Yarrowitch indicates the species extends south along the Botumbulla Range for a similar distance. Major drainage systems include the Nymboida, Styx and Guy Fawkes Rivers in the north and the Hastings River in the south.

Habitat

E. simplex has been collected from small to medium sized, open streams with banks vegetated by dry sclerophyll forest and heath or largely cleared for pasture at elevations between 1100 m and 1380 m a.s.l. Though water was clear and usually cool, brown algal growth was often moderately heavy in open streams.

References

Morgan, G. J. 1997. Freshwater Crayfish of the Genus Euastacus Clark (Decapoda: Parastacidae) from New South Wales, With a Key to all Species of the Genus. Records of the Australian Museum, supplement 23.

Riek, E. F. 1956. Additions to the Australian freshwater crayfish. Records of the Australian Museum 24: 1-6.

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

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