Procambarus (Girardiella) gracilis
Keith A. Crandall, James W. Fetzner, Jr., and Horton H. Hobbs, Jr.
Types
Syntypes, Illinois State Laboratory of Natural History, Urbana, Illinois (no longer there), Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 3794 (male I, female), Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 3454 (male I).Remarks
As is true of most of the wide-ranging primary burrowers, it is possible, if not probable, that many of the reported localities (particularly those from which first form males are not known) are based on misidentifications.
References
Bundy, W. F. 1876. [Contribution]. In S. A. Forbes, List of Illinois Crustacea, with Descriptions of New Species. Bulletin of the Illinois Museum of Natural History, 1: 3, 4, 5, 24-25.
Hobbs, Horton H., Jr. 1974. A Checklist of the North and Middle American Crayfishes (Decapoda: Astacidae and Cambaridae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 166: iii + 161 pages, figures 1-294.
Hobbs, H. H. Jr. 1989. An Illustrated Checklist of the American Crayfishes (Decapoda: Astacidae, Cambaridae, and Parastacidae). Smithsonian Institution Press.
Title Illustrations
Procambarus (Girardiella) gracilis
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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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