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Procambarus (Ortmannicus) pictus Hobbs 1940

Black Creek Crayfish

Keith A. Crandall, James W. Fetzner, Jr., and Horton H. Hobbs, Jr.
Containing group: Procambarus (Ortmannicus)

Types

Holotype, allotype, and "morphotype," National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. 76596 (male I, female, male II); paratypes, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

Type Locality

Small, swift swamp stream, about 2 miles (3.2 km) southwest of Green Cove Springs, Clay County, Florida. This is probably Peters Creek at State Route 315, Sec. 30, T. 6S, R. 26E. (See Franz and Franz, 1979:14.)

Range

Known from several small tributaries of Black Creek in Clay County, and tributary to the St. Johns River in Duval County, Florida.

Habitat

Streams.

Conservation Status

Category: VU (Vulnerable)
Criteria: B1+2c
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Other Names for Procambarus (Ortmannicus) pictus Hobbs 1940

References

Baillie, Jonathan, and Brian Groombridge. 1996. IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals.

Franz, Richard, and Lea M. Franz. 1979. Distribution, Habitat Preference and Status of Populations of the Black Creek Crayfish, Procambarus (Ortmannicus) pictus (Decapoda: Cambaridae). Florida Scientist, 42(1): 13-17, 1 figure.

Hobbs, H. H. Jr. 1989. An Illustrated Checklist of the American Crayfishes (Decapoda: Astacidae, Cambaridae, and Parastacidae). Smithsonian Institution Press.

Hobbs, Horton H., Jr. 1972. The Subgenera of the Crayfish Genus Procambarus (Decapoda: Astacidae). Smithsonian Constributions to Zoology, 117: 22 pages, figures 1-20.

About This Page
Page constructed by Emily Browne.

Keith A. Crandall
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA

James W. Fetzner, Jr.
Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Horton H. Hobbs, Jr.
Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio, USA

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