Orconectes (Crockerinus) jeffersoni
Louisville Crayfish
Keith A. Crandall, James W. Fetzner, Jr., and Horton H. Hobbs, Jr.Types
Holotype, allotype, and "morphotype" (designated by Rhoades as allotype), National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. 81316, 81318, 81317 (male I, female, male II); paratypes, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., Ohio State Museum, Columbus, Ohio.Type Locality
Tributary of Muddy Fork of Beargrass Creek, 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Louisville corporation line on U.S. Highway 42, Jefferson County, Kentucky.References
Baillie, Jonathan, and Brian Groombridge. 1996. IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals.
Hobbs, H. H. Jr. 1989. An Illustrated Checklist of the American Crayfishes (Decapoda: Astacidae, Cambaridae, and Parastacidae). Smithsonian Institution Press.
Rhoades, Rendell. 1944. The Crayfishes of Kentucky, with Notes on Variation, Distribution and Descriptions of New Species and Subspecies. American Midland Naturalist, 31(1): 111-149, figures 1-10.
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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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