The Aquatic Invertebrates of Texas

Decapoda

(Crayfish, Shrimp, Crabs)

CAMBARIDAE

Cambarellus puer Hobbs

Swamp Dwarf Crayfish

 

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Synonyms: Cambarellus diminutus Hobbs
                            (Barclay & Harrel 1985)
                       
Cambarus diminutus
                            (Barclay 1983)

 

 

 

Distribution Citations

1945 Hobbs

1958 Penn & Hobbs

1972 Hobbs
1973 Aubaugh
1973 Aubaugh & Black
1973 Harrel
1974 Hart & Hart
1974 Hobbs
1974 Reimer & Clark
1975 Albaugh
1979 Chambers Payne &
         Kennedy

 

1980 Commander
1982 Newberry
1983 Barclay
1983 Fitzpatrick
1985 Barclay & Harrel

1990 Hobbs
1992 Fitzpatrick & Suttkus
1996 Jasper

2002 Celik
2008 Johnson & Johnson
[2008 NatureServe]

[ ] indicate state record, no specific county or locality indicated

notes:

-New Species (Hobbs 1945)

-most abundant in shallow, permanent, sunny, lentic waters with abundant vegetation (Penn 1950); from lentic & sluggish logic habitats from (Hobbs 1972)

-the Matagorda record of C. puer is really  C. texanus (Albaugh & Black 1973)

copyright:   Stephen W. Ziser    
                          2011


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