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Euastacus australasiensis H._Milne_Edwards 1837

Keith A. Crandall
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Containing group: Euastacus

Types

Cotypes in Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris (not examined).

Type Locality

Sydney area, New South Wales.

Distribution

Euastacus australasiensis extends 110 km along the coast from Ourimbah south through Sydney to the Bulli Pass, 10 km north of Wollongong, and west into the Blue Mountains area from the Newnes Plateau south to the Kanangra Boyd National Park. Its range is drained by small coastal streams including tributaries of the Hawkesbury and Port Hacking Rivers, and in higher country by tributaries of the Grose and Coxs River. The species was collected from altitudes between 50 m and 1100 m a.s.l.

Habitat

The dominant geology of the area is sandstone and granite with some conglomerates and the vegetation primarily eucalypt and heath forest with occasional patches of temperate rainforest. Some areas have been largely cleared. Most of the streams are permanent, fed by springs. The species was collected from under rocks and from burrows in both open and shaded stretches of streams.

References

Crandall, Keith A., James W. Fetzner, Jr., Carlos G. Jara, and Ludwig Buckup. 2000. On the Phylogenetic Positioning of the South American Freshwater Crayfish Genera (Decapoda: Parastacidae). Journal of Crustacean Biology, 20(3): 530-540.

Milne Edwards, H. 1837. Histoire naturelle des crustaces, comprenant l'anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces animaux. Librairie Encyclopedique de Roret 2: 1-532.

Morgan, G. J. 1997. Freshwater Crayfish of the Genus Euastacus Clark (Decapoda: Parastacidae) from New South Wales, With a Key to all Species of the Genus. Records of the Australian Museum, supplement 23.

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