Samastacus araucanius
Keith A. CrandallType
Holotype, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 7355 (male).Habitat
Cascading stream, but according to Faxon, "it has a strongly compressed cephalothorax, indicating a burrow dwelling species."References
Faxon, Walter. 1914. Notes on the Crayfishes in the United States National Museum and the Museum of Comparative Zoology with Descriptions of New Species and Subspecies to Which is Appended a Catalogue of the Known Species and Subspecies. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 40(8): 351-427, 13 plates.
Hobbs, H. H. Jr. 1989. An Illustrated Checklist of the American Crayfishes (Decapoda: Astacidae, Cambaridae, and Parastacidae). Smithsonian Institution Press.
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