Orconectes

Orconectes is a genus of freshwater crayfish, native to the eastern United States and Canada. It includes the rusty crayfish, an invasive species in North America, and Orconectes limosus, an invasive species in Europe.

Orconectes
Orconectes limosus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Family: Cambaridae
Subfamily: Cambarinae
Genus: Orconectes
Cope, 1872
Type species
Orconectes inermis
Cope, 1872
Subgenera
  • Billecambarus
  • Buannulifictus
  • Crockerinus
  • Faxonius
  • Gremicambarus
  • Hespericambarus
  • Orconectes
  • Procericambarus
  • Rhoadesius
  • Tragulicambarus
  • Trisellescens

Taxonomy

The genus Orconectes was erected in 1872 by Edward Drinker Cope to house Astacus pellucidus (now Orconectes pellucidus) and his new species, Orconectes inermis.[1]

Approximately 85 species are known, divided into 11 subgenera.[2]

Scientific nameCommon nameRed List status[3]DistributionAuthorityYearSubgenus
O. acaresredspotted stream crayfishArkansasFitzpatrick1965Procericambarus
O. alabamensisAlabama crayfishAlabama, Mississippi, Tennessee(Faxon)1884Trisellescens
O. australiscave crayfishAlabama, Tennessee(Rhoades)1941Orconectes
O. barrenensisBarren River crayfishKentucky, TennesseeRhoades1944Procericambarus
O. barriCumberland Plateau crayfishKentucky, TennesseeBuhay & Crandall2008Orconectes
O. bellator Screaming Eagle crayfish Tennessee Bloom, McCall, Schuster & Blanton 2019 Faxonius
O. bisectusCrittenden crayfishKentuckyRhoades1944Crockerinus
O. burriBlood River crayfishKentucky, TennesseeTaylor & Sabaj1998Crockerinus
O. carolinensisNorth Carolina spiny crayfishNorth CarolinaCooper & Cooper1995Procericambarus
O. causeyiwestern plains crayfishArkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, TexasJester1967Gremicambarus
O. chickasawaeChickasaw crayfishMississippiCooper & Hobbs1980Trisellescens
O. compressusslender crayfishAlabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee(Faxon)1884Gremicambarus
O. cooperiFlint River crayfishAlabama, TennesseeCooper & Hobbs1980Trisellescens
O. cristavariusspiny stream crayfishKentucky, North Carolina, VirginiaTaylor2000Procericambarus
O. deanaeconchas crayfishNew Mexico, OklahomaReimer & Jester1975Hespericambarus
O. difficilispainted crayfishArkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas(Faxon)1898Hespericambarus
O. durellisaddle crayfishKentucky, TennesseeBouchard & Bouchard1995Procericambarus
O. erichsonianusreticulate crayfishAlabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia(Faxon)1898Crockerinus
O. etnieriEts crayfishMississippi, TennesseeBouchard & Bouchard1976Trisellescens
O. eupunctuscoldwater crayfishArkansas, MissouriWilliams1952Crockerinus
O. forcepssurgeon crayfishAlabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia(Faxon)1884Procericambarus
O. harrisoniibelted crayfishMissouri(Faxon)1884Billecambarus
O. hartfieldiYazoo crayfishMississippiFitzpatrick & Suttkus1992Hespericambarus
O. hathawayiTeche pointed crayfishLouisianaPenn1952Hespericambarus
O. hobbsiPontchartrain painted crayfishLouisiana, MississippiPenn1950Buannulifictus
O. holtibimaculate crayfishAlabamaCooper & Hobbs1980Trisellescens
O. hylaswoodland crayfishMissouri(Faxon)1890Procericambarus
O. illinoiensisShawnee crayfishIllinoisBrown1956Crockerinus
O. immuniscalico crayfishCanada, United States, introduced to Germany(Hagen)1870Trisellescens
O. incomptusTennessee cave crayfishTennesseeHobbs & Barr1972Orconectes
O. indianensisIndiana crayfishIllinois, Indiana(Hay)1896Faxonius
O. inermisghost crayfish / unarmed crayfishIndiana, KentuckyCope1872Orconectes
O. jeffersoniLouisville crayfishKentuckyRhoades1944Crockerinus
O. jonesiSucarnoochee crayfishAlabama, MississippiFitzpatrick1992Gremicambarus
O. juvenilisKentucky River crayfishIndiana, Kentucky(Hagen)1870Procericambarus
O. kentuckiensisKentucky crayfishIllinois, KentuckyRhoades1944Rhoadesius
O. lancifershrimp crayfishArkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas(Hagen)1870Tragulicambarus
O. leptogonopodusLittle River Creek crayfishArkansas, OklahomaHobbs1948Procericambarus
O. limosusspinycheek crayfishEastern United States, introduced to Western Europe(Rafinesque)1817Faxonius
O. longidigituslongpincered crayfishArkansas, Missouri(Faxon)1898Procericambarus
O. luteusgolden crayfishArkansas, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin(Creaser)1933Procericambarus
O. macrusNeosho midget crayfishArkansas, Missouri, KansasWilliams1952Procericambarus
O. maletaeKisatchie painted crayfishLouisiana, TexasWalls1972Hespericambarus
O. marchandiMammoth Spring crayfishArkansas, MissouriHobbs1948Crockerinus
O. margorectusLivingston crayfishKentuckyTaylor2002Crockerinus
O. mediussaddlebacked crayfishMissouri(Faxon)1884Procericambarus
O. meekiMeek's crayfishArkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma(Faxon)1898Buannulifictus
O. menaeMena crayfishArkansas, Oklahoma(Creaser)1933Procericambarus
O. miruswonderful crayfishAlabama, Tennessee(Ortmann)1931Procericambarus
O. mississippiensisMississippi crayfishMississippi(Faxon)1884Trisellescens
O. naiswater nymph crayfishKansas, Oklahoma, Texas(Faxon)1885Gremicambarus
O. nanamidget crayfishArkansas, OklahomaWilliams1952Procericambarus
O. neglectusringed crayfishArkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma(Faxon)1885Procericambarus
O. obscurusAllegheny crayfishOntario, Maryland, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia(Hagen)1870Crockerinus
O. ozarkaeOzark crayfishArkansas, MissouriWilliams1952Procericambarus
O. packardicave crayfishKentuckyRhoades1944Orconectes
O. pageimottled crayfishTennesseeTaylor & Sabaj1997Orconectes
O. palmerigray-speckled crayfishArkansas, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas(Faxon)1884Buannulifictus
O. pardalotusleopard crayfishIllinoisWetzel, Poly & Fetzner2005Procericambarus
O. pellucidusMammoth Cave crayfishKentucky, Tennessee(Tellkampf)1844Orconectes
O. perfectuscomplete crayfishAlabama, MississippiWalls1972Hespericambarus
O. peruncusBig Creek crayfishMissouri(Creaser)1931Procericambarus
O. placidusbigclaw crayfishAlabama, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee(Hagen)1870Procericambarus
O. propinquusnorthern clearwater crayfishCanada, Eastern United States(Girard)1852Crockerinus
O. punctimanusspothanded crayfishArkansas, Missouri(Creaser)1933Procericambarus
O. putnamiphallic crayfishIndiana, Kentucky, Tennessee(Faxon)1884Procericambarus
O. quadruncusSt. Francis River crayfishMissouri(Creaser)1933Procericambarus
O. quinebaugensisQuinebaug River crayfishMassachusettsMatthews & Warren2008Gremicambarus
O. rafinesqueiRough River crayfishKentuckyRhoades1944Crockerinus
O. raymondiNorwood River crayfishOhioThoma & Stocker2009Procericambarus
O. rhoadesifishhook crayfishTennesseeHobbs1949Trisellescens
O. ronaldiMud River crayfishKentuckyTaylor2000Procericambarus
O. rusticusrusty crayfishCanada, United States(Girard)1852Procericambarus
O. sanborniiSanborn's crayfishKentucky, Ohio, West Virginia(Faxon)1884Crockerinus
O. saxatilisKiamichi crayfishOklahomaBouchard & Bouchard1976Procericambarus
O. sheltaeShelta cave crayfishAlabamaCooper & Cooper1997Orconectes
O. shoupiNashville crayfishTennesseeHobbs1948Crockerinus
O. sloaniiSloan crayfishIndiana, Ohio(Bundy)1876Rhoadesius
O. spinosusCoona River spiny crayfishAlabama, Georgia, Tennessee(Bundy)1877Procericambarus
O. stannardiLittle Wabash crayfishIllinoisPage1985Crockerinus
O. stygocaneyiCaney Mountain cave crayfishMissouriHobbs III2001Orconectes
O. tayloricrescent crayfishTennesseeSchuster2008Trisellescens
O. theaphionensissinkhole crayfishIndianaSimon, Timm & Morris2005Procericambarus
O. tricuspiswestern highland crayfishKentuckyRhoades1944Crockerinus
O. validuspowerful crayfishAlabama, Tennessee(Faxon)1914Trisellescens
O. virginiensisChowanoke crayfishNorth Carolina, VirginiaHobbs1951Crockerinus
O. virilisvirile crayfishCanada, United States, introduced to Mexico and Europe(Hagen)1870Gremicambarus
O. williamsiWilliams crayfishArkansas, MissouriFitzpatrick1966Procericambarus
O. wrightiHardin crayfishTennesseeHobbs1948Faxonius
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References

  1. Keith A. Crandall; James W. Fetzner, Jr.; Horton H. Hobbs, Jr. (2001). "Orconectes Cope, 1872". Tree of Life Web Project.
  2. James W. Fetzner, Jr. (January 14, 2008). "Orconectes". The Crayfish and Lobster Taxonomy Browser. Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
  3. "Search". IUCN Red List. IUCN. Retrieved October 8, 2010.
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