Orconectes australis | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Family: | Cambaridae |
Genus: | Orconectes |
Species: | O. australis
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Binomial name | |
Orconectes australis (
Rhoades, 1941)
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Orconectes australis, the southern cave crayfish, [1] [2] is a species of crayfish in the Cambaridae family found in Alabama and Tennessee. [3] Ages of 176 years have been claimed for O. australis, though this was reduced to ≤22 years in a 2012 study. [4]
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