Austropotamobius
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Austropotamobius is a genus of crayfish
in the family Astacidae
. It contains three extant species, and one species known from fossil
s of Barremian
age:
Crayfish
Crayfish, crawfish, or crawdads – members of the superfamilies Astacoidea and Parastacoidea – are freshwater crustaceans resembling small lobsters, to which they are related...
in the family Astacidae
Astacidae
The family Astacidae comprises the freshwater crayfish native to Europe and western North America. It is made up of three genera. Pacifastacus is found on the Pacific coast of the United States and British Columbia and includes the signal crayfish and the Shasta crayfish...
. It contains three extant species, and one species known from fossil
Fossil
Fossils are the preserved remains or traces of animals , plants, and other organisms from the remote past...
s of Barremian
Barremian
The Barremian is an age in the geologic timescale between 130.0 ± 1.5 Ma and 125.0 ± 1.0 Ma). It is a subdivision of the Early Cretaceous epoch...
age:
- Austropotamobius llopisi (Via, 1971) †ExtinctionIn biology and ecology, extinction is the end of an organism or of a group of organisms , normally a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and recover may have been lost before this point...
- Austropotamobius italicus (Faxon, 1914)
- Austropotamobius pallipesAustropotamobius pallipesAustropotamobius pallipes is an endangered European freshwater crayfish, and the only species of crayfish native to the British Isles. Its common names include white-clawed crayfish and Atlantic stream crayfish.-Distribution and ecology:...
(Lereboullet, 1858) - Austropotamobius torrentium (Schrank, 1803) — stone crayfish