Pontastacus

Pontastacus is a genus of freshwater crayfish occurring in Europe and northern Asia.[1][2][3]

Pontastacus
Pontastacus leptodactylus (museum specimen)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Family: Astacidae
Genus: Pontastacus
Bott, 1950
Species

See text

Synonyms[1]
  • Astacus (Pontastacus) Bott, 1950
  • Caspiastacus Starobogatov, 1996

Species

Nine species are recognized:[1][2]

  • P. cubanicus (Birstein & Vinogradov, 1934)
  • P. danubialis Brodsky, 1981
  • P. daucinus Brodsky, 1981
  • P. eichwaldi (Bott, 1950)
  • P. kessleri (Schimkewitsch, 1886)
  • P. leptodactylus (Eschscholtz, 1823)
  • P. pachypus (Rathke, 1836)
  • P. pylzowi (Skorikov, 1907)
  • P. salinus (von Nordmann, 1842)

References

  1. WoRMS (2022). "Pontastacus Bott, 1950". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  2. "Pontastacus Bott, 1950". Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  3. Crandall, Keith A.; De Grave, Sammy (2017). "An updated classification of the freshwater crayfishes (Decapoda: Astacidea) of the world, with a complete species list". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 37 (5). doi:10.1093/jcbiol/rux070.


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