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Southern Hemisphere Crayfishes
Parastacidae
Parastacidae is the family of freshwater crayfish found in the southern hemisphere. The family is a classic Gondwana-distributed taxon, with extant members in South America, Madagascar, Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea, and extinct taxa also in Antarctica.
15 branches of this family, most-observed first
Cherax
genusCherax
Spiny Crayfishes
genusEuastacus
Australian Burrowing Crayfishes
genusEngaeus
Paranephrops
genusParanephrops
Parastacus
genusParastacus
Astacopsis
genusAstacopsis
Samastacus
genusSamastacus
Tenuibranchiurus
genusTenuibranchiurus
Ombrastacoides
genusOmbrastacoides
Geocharax
genusGeocharax
Gramastacus
genusGramastacus
Spinastacoides
genusSpinastacoides
Astacoides
genusAstacoides
Engaewa
genusEngaewa
Virilastacus
genusVirilastacus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 85966.