Crayfish plague information

Crayfish plague (Aphanomyces astaci) is a water mold that infects crayfish, most notably the European Astacus which dies within a few weeks of being infected...

Crayfish are freshwater crustaceans belonging to the infraorder Astacidea, which also contains lobsters. Taxonomically, they are members of the superfamilies...

which were being damaged by crayfish plague, but the imports turned out to be a carrier of that disease. The signal crayfish is now considered an invasive...

at high rates. Marbled crayfish are also a known carrier of a crayfish plague pathogen, Aphanomyces astaci. Marbled crayfish inhabit freshwater environments...

crayfish plague, crayfish of this genus have declined in many European regions, being replaced by the invasive North American signal crayfish, which carries...

freshwater crayfish, and the only crayfish native to the British Isles. Its common names include white-clawed crayfish and Atlantic stream crayfish. It is...

Astacus astacus, the European crayfish, noble crayfish, or broad-fingered crayfish, is the most common species of crayfish in Europe, and a traditional...

may outcompete the native crayfish species and is a vector for the crayfish plague fungus Aphanomyces astaci, for crayfish virus vibriosis and for a number...

suspect that this American crayfish carries some disease, such as the crayfish plague known in Europe, that eliminates endemic crayfish. Kawai, T.; Machino,...

grey squirrels. The European crayfish is susceptible to crayfish plague which is spread by the introduced signal crayfish. Unlike some other environmental...

the invading species fight for food resources, but it also carries crayfish plague, to which the native species has no immunity. The Afon Lwyd Trail is...

used to eat roasted dormouse and quail. Until the crayfish plague in the 1880s, the noble crayfish was a source of income and often on the menu in Lower...

linked to the destruction of crayfish in Finland during the 1920s-1940s, when the crustaceans were infected with crayfish plague. The failure of the European...

outcompeting native crayfish and spreading the devastating crayfish plague to them, although crayfish plague-induced declines have not been noted among native...

another invasive North American crayfish, F. limosus carries crayfish plague and is a threat to native European crayfish. F. limosus was introduced to Germany...

southern river system. Signal crayfish have carried crayfish plague, to which they are resistant, but the native white-clawed crayfish is not. The result has...

Aphanomyces amphigynus Aphanomyces apophysii Aphanomyces astaci – crayfish plague Aphanomyces balboensis Aphanomyces bosminae Aphanomyces brassicae Aphanomyces...

also suffered from the introduction of the crayfish plague, Asphanomyces astaci, carried by invasive crayfish species from North America, and from the release...

stronghold for white-clawed crayfish, but most of the river's population were wiped out by crayfish plague in 2008. Crayfish have been noted in the tributaries...

tributaries, the signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusulus). As these species of large crayfish are immune to crayfish plague, but spread the pathogen...

introduced. Angling is thus popular in the lake. Crayfish plague struck the lake in 1978 but signal crayfish were reintroduced in 1984. A number of birds...

into the lake - and many others. The lake was struck by crayfish plague in 1950 but crayfish was reintroduced around 1970. North-east of the lake smooth...

population of native White clawed crayfish in the upper reaches, which is an endangered species in the UK. In 2013, Crayfish plague was discovered in the lower...