Cherax
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- Cherax
- Cherax setosus
- Destructor Group
- Cherax albidus
- Cherax destructor
- Punctatus Group
- Cherax neopunctatus
- Cherax depressus
- Cherax cairnsensis
- Cherax wasselli
- Cherax gladstonensis
- Cherax glaber
- Cherax urospinosus
- Cherax robustus
- Cherax cartalacoolah
- Cherax punctatus
- Cherax rotundus
- Dispar Group
- Cherax cuspidatus
- Cherax dispar
- Quinquecarinatus Group
- Cherax preissii
- Cherax plebejus
- Cherax glabrimanus
- Cherax neocarinatus
- Cherax quinquecarinatus
- Cherax crassimanus
- Quadricarinatus Group
- Cherax divergens
- Cherax lorentzi
- Cherax quadricarinatus
- Cherax tenuimanus
- Cherax rhynchotus
- Cherax monticola
- Cherax barretti
- Cherax nucifraga
- Cherax parvus
Horwitz (1995)Phylogenetic relationships in this group have been preliminarily explored by Austin (1995) using morphological and allozyme data.
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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
Specimen Records:253
Specimens with Sequences:249
Specimens with Barcodes:181
Species:29
Species With Barcodes:29
Public Records:228
Public Species:29
Public BINs:57
Cherax is the most widespread genus of fully aquatic crayfish in the Southern Hemisphere. Together with Euastacus, it is also the largest crayfish genus in the Southern Hemisphere. Its members may be found in lakes, rivers and streams across most of Australia and New Guinea.[1] In Australia the many species of Cherax are commonly known as yabbies. The most common and widely distributed species in Australia is the common yabby (Cherax destructor). It is generally found in lowland rivers and streams, lakes, swamps and impoundments at low to medium altitude, largely within the Murray-Darling Basin. Common yabbies are found in many ephemeral waterways, and can survive dry conditions for long periods of time (at least several years) by aestivating (lying dormant) in burrows sunk deep into muddy creek and swamp beds.
Species[edit]
The genus contains 52 species:[2]
- Cherax albertisii
- Cherax albidus
- Cherax angustus
- Cherax aruanus
- Cherax austini
- Cherax barretti
- Cherax bicarinatus
- Cherax boesemani
- Cherax boschmai
- Cherax buitendijkae
- Cherax cainii
- Cherax cairnsensis
- Cherax cartalacoolah
- Cherax cid
- Cherax communis
- Cherax crassimanus
- Cherax cuspidatus
- Cherax davisi
- Cherax depressus
- Cherax destructor
- Cherax dispar
- Cherax esculus
- Cherax glaber
- Cherax glabrimanus
- Cherax gladstonensis
- Cherax holthuisi
- Cherax leckii
- Cherax longipes
- Cherax lorentzi
- Cherax misolicus
- Cherax monticola
- Cherax murido
- Cherax neocarinatus
- Cherax neopunctatus
- Cherax nucifraga
- Cherax pallidus
- Cherax paniaicus
- Cherax papuanus
- Cherax parvus
- Cherax peknyi
- Cherax plebejus
- Cherax preissii
- Cherax punctatus
- Cherax quadricarinatus
- Cherax quinquecarinatus
- Cherax rhynchotus
- Cherax robustus
- Cherax rotundus
- Cherax solus
- Cherax tenuimanus
- Cherax urospinosus
- Cherax wasselli
References[edit]
- ^ D. H. N. Munasinghe, C. P. Burridge & C. M. Austin (2004). "The systematics of freshwater crayfish of the genus Cherax Erichson (Decapoda: Parastacidae) in eastern Australia re-examined using nucleotide sequences from 12S rRNA and 16S rRNA genes" (PDF). Invertebrate Systematics 18 (2): 215–225. doi:10.1071/IS03012.
- ^ James W. Fetzner, Jr. (November 1, 2010). "Genus Cherax Erichson, 1846". Crayfish Taxon Browser. Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Retrieved October 8, 2013.
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