Cambarellus (Cambarellus) montezumae Saussure 1857

Keith A. Crandall, James W. Fetzner, Jr., and Horton H. Hobbs, Jr.

Containing group: Cambarellus (Cambarellus)

Types

Syntypes, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. 20583 (male I), Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneva, Switzerland (uncatalogued, dry, 13 specimens), British Museum (Natural History), London, England 3587.

Type Locality

Swamps of the Valley of Mexico; ponds in Chapultepec Park, Mexico.

Range

Pacific slope and Valley of Mexico.

Habitat

Sluggish streams and lentic situations.

References

Hobbs, H. H. Jr. 1989. An Illustrated Checklist of the American Crayfishes (Decapoda: Astacidae, Cambaridae, and Parastacidae). Smithsonian Institution Press.

Saussure, Henri de. 1857. Note carcinologique sur la famille des Thalassides et sur celle des Astacides. Revue et Magasin de Zoologie Pure et Appliquee, series 2, 9: 99-102.

About This Page

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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