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Photo#664746
Crayfish 2 - Cambarus - female

Crayfish 2 - Cambarus - Female

Bent Creek, Buncombe County, North Carolina, USA
June 27, 2012

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Moved
Moved from Crustaceans.

Cambarus
Excellent photos! Based on the absence of cephalic spine, the single row of tubercles on the mesial margin of the palm of the chelae, the wide open areola, the acute suborbital angle, the rostrum shape as well as the general appearance and your location, this is most likely Cambarus bartonii. And yours is a female - note the annulus ventralis on the ventral photo.

Now having said all of that, the Cambarus genus is still being sorted out, with some lumping into complexes and others declaring new species/subspecies, so without a doubt, the taxonomy will provide new surprises down the road. And bartonii is one of those looking like a complex. However, in your area bartonii hasn't been too much of an issue, so I think we can safely assign that ID to your specimen. If we have to later move to a lower taxon (subspecies), it's no problem.

Again, great photos - I was able to see pretty much everything I needed to make a good ID.

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