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Pontastacus
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Pontastacus

Pontastacus is a genus of freshwater crayfish native to eastern Europe and western Asia, but also introduced elsewhere.

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9 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Narrow-clawed crayfish

speciesPontastacus leptodactylus

Caspian Crayfish

speciesPontastacus pachypus

Pontastacus eichwaldi

speciesPontastacus eichwaldi

Pontastacus kessleri

speciesPontastacus kessleri

Pontastacus danubialis

speciesPontastacus danubialis

Pontastacus daucinus

speciesPontastacus daucinus

Pontastacus pylzowi

speciesPontastacus pylzowi

Pontastacus salinus

speciesPontastacus salinus

Kuban Crayfish

speciesPontastacus cubanicus

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 622749.