Hobbseus attenuatus Black 1969

Containing group: Hobbseus

Types

Holotype, allotype, and morphotype, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. 129535, 129536, 129537 (male I, female, male II); paratypes, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Department of Zoology, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, Joe B. Black.

Type Locality

"Roadside ditch adjacent to Noxapater Creek, on gravel road two miles (3.2 km) north of State Route 395, six miles (9.6 km) west of Noxapater, Winston County, Mississippi (R. 11E, T. 14N)."

Range

Pearl River drainage in Winston and Neshoba counties, Mississippi.

Habitat

Lentic situations.

Conservation Status

Category: VU (Vulnerable)
Criteria: B1+2c, D1
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References

Baillie, Jonathan, and Brian Groombridge. 1996. IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals.

Black, Joe B. 1969. A New Crawfish of the Genus Hobbseus from Mississippi (Decapoda, Astacidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 82(14): 193-199, 12 figures.

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

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