Austropotamobius Explained

Austropotamobius is a genus of European crayfish in the family Astacidae. It contains four extant species,^{[1] [2]}

• Austropotamobius bihariensis Pârvulescu 2019 — Idle crayfish
• Austropotamobius fulcisianus (Ninni, 1886)
• Austropotamobius pallipes (Lereboullet, 1858) — White-clawed crayfish
• Austropotamobius torrentium (Schrank, 1803) — Stone crayfish
• Austropotamobius llopisi? (Via, 1971) † Las Hoyas (Cuenca prov.), and el Montsec (Lleida prov.), Spain, Early Cretaceous (Barremian) (placement in the genus has been questioned^[3])

Notes and References

1. Keith A . Crandall . Sammy . De Grave . 2017 . An updated classification of the freshwater crayfishes (Decapoda: Astacidea) of the world, with a complete species list . Journal of Crustacean Biology . 37 . 5 . 615–653 . 10.1093/jcbiol/rux070. free .
2. Pârvulescu. Lucian. 2019. Introducing a new Austropotamobius crayfish species (Crustacea, Decapoda, Astacidae): A Miocene endemism of the Apuseni Mountains, Romania. Zoologischer Anzeiger. en. 279. 94–102. 10.1016/j.jcz.2019.01.006.
3. Audo . Denis . Hasiotis . Stephen T . Kawai . Tadashi . 2023-12-01 . Diversity and evolutionary history of fossil crayfishes . Journal of Crustacean Biology . en . 43 . 4 . 10.1093/jcbiol/ruad079 . 0278-0372.