Lacunicambarus

Lacunicambarus is a genus of burrowing crayfishes in the family Cambaridae. There are currently 11 described species in Lacunicambarus, found east of the Continental Divide in North America.[1][2] The genus was first recognized in 2018 when it was discovered through genetic analyses that the Cambarus subgenera Lacunicambarus and Tubericambarus were not monophyletic on their own, but that when combined they formed a single monophyletic group distinct from Cambarus.[3]

Lacunicambarus
Lacunicambarus ludovicianus, Painted Devil Crayfish, Mississippi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Family: Cambaridae
Genus: Lacunicambarus
Hobbs, 1969

Species

These 11 species belong to the genus Lacunicambarus:

  • Lacunicambarus acanthura (Hobbs, 1981) (Thornytail Crayfish)
  • Lacunicambarus chimera Glon & Thoma, 2019 (Crawzilla Crawdad)
  • Lacunicambarus dalyae Glon, Williams & Loughman, 2019 (Jewel Mudbug)
  • Lacunicambarus diogenes (Girard, 1852) (Devil Crayfish)
  • Lacunicambarus erythrodactylus (Simon & Morris, 2014) (Warpaint Mudbug)
  • Lacunicambarus freudensteini Glon, 2020 (Banded Mudbug)
  • Lacunicambarus ludovicianus (Faxon, 1884) (Painted Devil Crayfish)
  • Lacunicambarus miltus (Fitzpatrick, 1978) (Rusty Grave Digger)
  • Lacunicambarus mobilensis Glon, 2020 (Lonesome Gravedigger)
  • Lacunicambarus polychromatus (Thoma, Jezerinac & Simon, 2005) (Paintedhand Mudbug)
  • Lacunicambarus thomai (Jezerinac, 1993) (Little Brown Mudbug)

References
  1. "Lacunicambarus". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-10-22.
  2. 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.
  3. Glon, Mael G; Thoma, Roger F; Taylor, Christopher A; Daly, Marymegan; Freudenstein, John V (2018). "Molecular phylogenetic analysis of the devil crayfish group, with elevation of Lacunicambarus Hobbs, 1969 to generic rank and a redescription of the devil crayfish, Lacunicambarus diogenes (Girard, 1852) comb. nov. (Decapoda: Astacoidea: Cambaridae)". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 38 (5): 600–613. doi:10.1093/jcbiol/ruy057.

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