Steel blue crayfish | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Family: | Parastacidae |
Genus: | Cherax |
Species: | C. woworae
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Binomial name | |
Cherax woworae Patoka, Akmal, Bláha & Kouba, 2023
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Cherax woworae, the steel blue crayfish, is a species of crayfish native to Southwest Papua, a province of Indonesia. [1] The species is popular in the pet trade, in which it is sold under the name "blue moon crayfish". [2] This has led to it becoming an introduced species in other countries, such as Hungary. [2]
Despite being a popular species in aquariums, C. woworae was first described as a separate species in 2023. It is named after Daisy Wowor, a curator at the Bogor Zoology Museum in Java, Indonesia. [3]