Cambarus jonesi, the Alabama cave crayfish,[1][2] is a small, freshwater crayfish endemic to Alabama in the United States. It is an underground species known only from 12 caves.
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Family: | Cambaridae |
Genus: | Cambarus |
Species: | C. jonesi
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Binomial name | |
Cambarus jonesi Hobbs and Barr, 1960
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Distribution
editThe Alabama cave crayfish is known from cave systems in the Tennessee River basin between Florence and Guntersville. It has been found in Colbert, Limestone, Lauderdale, Madison, and Morgan counties in Alabama. Specimens from Marshall County, formerly thought to be this species, actually represent two distinct species, Cambarus speleocoopi and Cambarus laconensis[1]
Etymology
editThe name jonesi honors Walter B. Jones.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b c Cordeiro, J.; Crandall, K.A. & Thoma, R.F. (2010). "Cambarus jonesi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T153956A4568740. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T153956A4568740.en. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
- ^ a b "Cambarus jonesi". NatureServe Explorer An online encyclopedia of life. 7.1. NatureServe. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
- ^ Horton H. Hobbs; Thomas C. Barr (July 1960). "The Origins and Affinities of the Troglobitic Crayfishes of North America (Decapoda, Astacidae). I. The Genus Cambarus". The American Midland Naturalist. 64 (1): 12. doi:10.2307/2422890. ISSN 0003-0031. Wikidata Q104204369.