The Parastacidae are the family of freshwater crayfish found in the Southern Hemisphere. The family is a classic Gondwana-distributed taxon, with extant members in South America, Madagascar, Australia, New Zealand, and New Guinea, and extinct taxa also in Antarctica.
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The Parastacidae are the family of freshwater crayfish found in the Southern Hemisphere. The family is a classic Gondwana-distributed taxon, with extant...
Southern Hemisphere. The Southern Hemisphere (Gondwana-distributed) family Parastacidae, with 14 extant genera and two extinct genera, live(d) in South America...
yabby (Cherax destructor) is an Australian freshwater crustacean in the Parastacidae family. It is listed as a vulnerable species of crayfish by the International...
systematics of freshwater crayfish of the genus Cherax Erichson (Decapoda: Parastacidae) in eastern Australia re-examined using nucleotide sequences from 12S...
Checklist of the American Crayfishes (Decapoda, Astacidae, Cambaridae, Parastacidae)". Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 480 (480): 1–236. doi:10.5479/si...
Decapoda, Parastacidae) from central-southern Chile" "A New Species of Burrowing Crayfish Virilastacus Retamali (Decapoda: Parastacidae) from the Southern...
freshwater crayfish endemic to Australia that belongs to the family Parastacidae. Morphological variation is observed in Euastacus spinifer that originate...
to Tasmania's giant freshwater crayfish Astacopsis gouldi (Decapoda: Parastacidae)" (PDF). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania. 152:...
freshwater crayfish endemic to Australia that belongs to the family Parastacidae. The Murray crayfish has the largest geographic range of any of the Euastacus...
yabby or commercial yabby, is an Australian freshwater crayfish in the Parastacidae family, found primarily in Western Australian agricultural dams, creeks...
zealandicus or southern koura is a species of southern crawfish in the family Parastacidae. It is found in New Zealand. The IUCN conservation status of Paranephrops...
fingered yabby, is an Australian freshwater crustacean in the family Parastacidae. A relatively small species of yabby reaching a maximum of 15 cm (5.9 in)...
planifrons or northern koura is a species of southern crawfish in the family Parastacidae. It is found in New Zealand. P. planifrons is one of two indigenous species...
America, Europe, and Australia: Families Astacidae, Cambaridae, and Parastacidae. CRC Press. p. 47. ISBN 9781560220398. Retrieved January 29, 2018. MacNiven...
2015, Cherax snowden, a new species of crayfish (Crustacea, Decapoda, Parastacidae) from the Kepala Burung (Vogelkop) Peninsula in Irian Jaya (West Papua...
Virilastacus araucanius is a burrowing species of crayfish in the family Parastacidae, endemic to Chile. Virilastacus araucanius is listed as Data Deficient...
another genus of crayfish, Cherax. Both genera are members of the family Parastacidae, a family of freshwater crayfish restricted to the Southern Hemisphere...
common koonac, is a Western Australian freshwater crustacean in the Parastacidae family. Its common name of "koonac" is also applied to another Western...
Euastacus hystricosus is a species of southern crawfish in the family Parastacidae. The IUCN conservation status of Euastacus hystricosus is "EN", endangered...
2014). "The eastern swamp crayfish Gramastacus lacus sp. n. (Decapoda, Parastacidae) a new species of freshwater crayfish from coastal New South Wales, Australia"...
to 3.7 m in length have been found.[citation needed] The large family Parastacidae includes 124 species of Australian freshwater crayfish.[citation needed]...
to Tasmania's giant freshwater crayfish Astacopsis gouldi (Decapoda: Parastacidae)". Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania. 152: 21–26...
2014). "The eastern swamp crayfish Gramastacus lacus sp. n. (Decapoda, Parastacidae) a new species of freshwater crayfish from coastal New South Wales, Australia"...
Euastacus neodiversus is a species of southern crawfish in the family Parastacidae. The IUCN conservation status of Euastacus neodiversus is "EN", endangered...
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