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Orconectes (Procericambarus) spinosus Bundy 1877

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

Types

Syntypes, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 3540 (2 male II, 2 female), Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 3541 (male II, female), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. 19779 (3 male II, 2 female).

Type Locality

"Etowah, Oostanaula, and Coosa Rivers, in the vicinity of Rome, Georgia" (Bundy, 1877:174).

Range

Coosa, Tennessee, and Kanawha(?) river systems in Alabama, Georgia, eastern Tennessee, Virginia(?), and West Virginia(?). The limits of the range of O. (P.) spinosus and the closely related O. (P.) putnami have not been determined.

Habitat

Streams.

Remarks

Following Ortmann (1931), this species has been largely relegated to synonomy with O. juvenilis (Hagen) (=O. (P.) rusticus (Girard)). Not until 1972 was it again accorded specific status.

Distribution

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Conservation Status

Currently stable.

References

Bundy, W. F. 1877. On the Cambari of Northern Indiana. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 29: 171-174.

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.

Taylor, C. A., M. L. Warren, Jr., J. F. Fitzpatrick, Jr., H. H. Hobbs III, R. F. Jezerinac, W. L. Pflieger, and H. W. Robison. 1996. Conservation Status of Crayfishes of the United States and Canada. Fisheries 21:4.

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Orconectes (Procericambarus) spinosus.
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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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