Cherax
Keith A. Crandall
- Cherax setosus
- Destructor Group
- Punctatus Group
- Cherax neopunctatus
- Cherax depressus
- Cherax cairnsensis
- Cherax wasselli
- Cherax gladstonensis
- Cherax glaber
- Cherax urospinosus
- Cherax robustus
- Cherax cartalacoolah
- Cherax punctatus
- Cherax rotundus
- Dispar Group
- Quinquecarinatus Group
- Cherax preissii
- Cherax plebejus
- Cherax glabrimanus
- Cherax neocarinatus
- Cherax quinquecarinatus
- Cherax crassimanus
- Quadricarinatus Group
- Cherax divergens
- Cherax lorentzi
- Cherax quadricarinatus
- Cherax tenuimanus
- Cherax rhynchotus
- Cherax monticola
- Cherax barretti
- Cherax nucifraga
- Cherax parvus
Discussion of Phylogenetic Relationships
Phylogenetic relationships in this group have been preliminarily explored by Austin (1995) using morphological and allozyme data.References
Austin, C.M. 1995. Evolution in the genus Cherax (Decapoda: Parastacidae) in Australia: A numberical cladistic analysis of allozyme and morphological data. Freshwater Crayfish 8:32-50.
Horwitz, P. 1995. A preliminary key to the species of Decapoda (Crustacea: Malacostraca) found in Australian inland waters. Co-operative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology, Albury, Australia.
Riek, E.F. 1969. The Australian freshwater crayfish (Crustacea: Decapoda: Parastacidae), with descriptions of new species. Australian Journal of Zoology 17:855-918.
Short, J.W. 1991. Cherax nucifraga, a new species of freshwater crayfish (Crustacea: Decapoda: Parastacidae) from the Northern Territory, Australia. The Beagle, Records of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences 8:115-120.
Short, J.W. 1993. Cherax cartalacoolah, a new species of freshwater crayfish (Decapoda: Parastacidae) from Northeast Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 33:55-59.
Short, J.W. and Davie, P.J.F. 1993. Two new species of freshwater crayfish (Crustacea: Decapoda: Parastacidae) from Northeastern Queensland rainforest. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 34:69-80.
Sokol, A. 1988. Morphological variation in relation to the taxonomy of the destructor group of the genus Cherax. Invertebrate Taxonomy 2:55-79.
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