Fallicambarus

Fallicambarus
Fallicambarus burrisi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Family:	Cambaridae
Genus:	Fallicambarus Hobbs, 1969 [1]
Type species
Cambarus strawni Reimer, 1966

Fallicambarus is a genus of crayfish in the family Cambaridae. It includes 19 species, of which five are on the IUCN Red List as vulnerable species (VU), two as endangered species (EN) and one as a critically endangered species (CR).^[2] Only F. fodiens is widespread, occurring over a large part of the Central United States, and extending into Ontario; the other species are all restricted to three states or fewer from Texas to Florida.^[2]

• Fallicambarus burrisi (Fitzpatrick, 1987) ^[3] – Alabama, Mississippi
• Fallicambarus byersi (Hobbs, 1941) – Alabama, Florida, Mississippi
• Fallicambarus caesius Hobbs, 1975 – Arkansas
• Fallicambarus danielae Hobbs, 1975 ^[4] – Alabama, Mississippi
• Fallicambarus devastator Hobbs & Whiteman, 1987 – Texas
• Fallicambarus dissitus (Penn, 1955) – Arkansas, Louisiana
• Fallicambarus fodiens (Cottle, 1863) – Ontario, central United States
• Fallicambarus gilpini Hobbs & Robison, 1989 ^[5] – Arkansas
• Fallicambarus gordoni (Fitzpatrick, 1987) ^[6] – Mississippi
• Fallicambarus harpi Hobbs & Robison, 1985 ^[7] – Arkansas
• Fallicambarus hortoni Hobbs & Fitzpatrick, 1970 ^[8] – Tennessee
• Fallicambarus houstonensis Johnson, 2008 – Texas
• Fallicambarus jeanae Hobbs, 1973 – Arkansas
• Fallicambarus kountzeae Johnson, 2008 – Texas
• Fallicambarus macneesei (Black, 1967) – Louisiana, Texas
• Fallicambarus oryktes Penn & Marlow, 1959 – Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi
• Fallicambarus petilicarpus Hobbs & Robison, 1989 ^[9] – Arkansas
• Fallicambarus strawni (Reimer, 1966) ^[10] – Arkansas
• Fallicambarus wallsi Johnson, 2011^[11]

References

1. "Fallicambarus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
2. James W. Fetzner, Jr. (January 14, 2008). "Genus Fallicambarus Hobbs, 1969". Crayfish Taxon Browser. Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
3. American Fisheries Society Endangered Species Committee (1996). "Fallicambarus burrisi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved March 17, 2010.
4. American Fisheries Society Endangered Species Committee (1996). "Fallicambarus danielae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved March 17, 2010.
5. American Fisheries Society Endangered Species Committee (1996). "Fallicambarus gilpini". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved March 17, 2010.
6. American Fisheries Society Endangered Species Committee (1996). "Fallicambarus gordoni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved March 17, 2010.
7. American Fisheries Society Endangered Species Committee (1996). "Fallicambarus harpi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved March 17, 2010.
8. American Fisheries Society Endangered Species Committee (1996). "Fallicambarus hortoni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved March 17, 2010.
9. American Fisheries Society Endangered Species Committee (1996). "Fallicambarus petilicarpus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved March 17, 2010.
10. American Fisheries Society Endangered Species Committee (1996). "Fallicambarus strawni". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2009.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved March 17, 2010.
11. Johson, D.P. (2011). "Fallicambarus (F.) wallsi (Decapoda: Cambaridae), a new burrowing crayfish from eastern Texas." Zootaxa 2939: 59-68.

External links

• James W. Fetzner, Jr. (September 10, 2004). "Key to Fallicambarus". Carnegie Museum of Natural History.