Notes On The Crayfishes: /ftemoirs of Tbe /ftuseum of Comparattve
Notes On The Crayfishes: /ftemoirs of Tbe /ftuseum of Comparattve
Notes On The Crayfishes: /ftemoirs of Tbe /ftuseum of Comparattve
AT HARVARD COLLEGE.
BY
WALTER FAXON.
CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.:
There are two cotypes of this species in the Museum of -Natural History
in Paris. One of these, a female, has been kindly loaned to me by Prof. E. L.
Bouvier. The rostrum of this specimen is long-triangular, excavated, the
acumen provided with an upturned, blunt, apical denticle and a similar denticle
on each side; behind the lateral denticles the margins of the rostrum are obscurely
crenate. The post-orbital ridges terminate anteriorly in a blunt tubercle;
they are channelled throughout their length and are followed by two obsolescent
tubercles at a little lower level on the gastric region; the hepatic area also is
tuberculated and a few less prominent tubercles are visible on the posterior
margin of the cervical groove on each side of the carapace. The areola is broad,
narrowing from before backward, punctate. Branchial regions obsoletely squa-
mose. Abdomen rather smooth, with a submarginal row of small tubercles on
the pleura of the second somite; pleura rounded. Spine on dorsal face of inner
branch of posterior abdominal appendages submarginal. Antennal scale of
moderate width, flanked with a sharp denticle on the outer side at the base.
Anterior process of the epistome triangular, with convex sides, ending anteriorly
in an attenuated angle. Chelipeds nearly symmetrical, meros armed below
with spines biserially disposed, upper margin thereof also furnished with a few
(three or four) spinules; upper margin of carpus armed with two prominent
spines, the distal the larger; outer face furrowed longitudinally, slightly tubercu-
late along the upper edge of the furrow; inner face of the carpus somewhat
tuberculate and armed with one spine in the middle of the distal border. Propo-
dite distinctly carinate on the upper border, less distinctly so on its lower border;
the superior crest is cut into five teeth, the lower margin is denticulate; the outer
face of the propodite is thickly covered with depressed tubercles. Dactylus
furnished with one denticle near the proximal end of the upper border. Length,
63 mm.; length of carapace, 30.5 mm.; breadth of carapace, 13 mm.; length of
areola, 9 mm.; breadth of areola at anterior end, 6 mm., at posterior end, 4.5
mm.; length of chela, 20 mm.; breadth of chela, 10 mm.; length of dactylus,
11.5 mm.
Bay of Sydney, Verreaux, No. 944, 1837.
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Astaconephrops albertisii NOBILI, Annali Mus. Civ. Storia Nat. Geneva, 1899, 40, p. 244; Bolletino dei
Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata di Torino, June 9, 1903, 18, p. 1.
The genus Astaconephrops, with its one species albertisii, based on a single
female specimen in the Museum of Genoa which is said to have come from
Katau on the southern coast of New Guinea, needs further elucidation. Accord-
ing to Nobili the margins of the rostrum (which in a general way resembles the
rostrum of Paranephrops) are continued back, in the shape of two keels, over
the carapace to the cervical groove; the abdominal segments are produced into
points laterally; the inner branch of the last pair of abdominal appendages is
furnished with a rib or keel on the dorsal face, terminating in a spine near the
centre of the branch; the chelae are long and slender and on account of the
elevation of the middle of the two faces appear subprismatical; the carpus is
cylindrical, or rather depressed, and armed on the inner side with a sharp spine
concealed in a large tuft of hairs; the inner margin of the palm is furnished with
minute teeth, all the rest of the palm being smooth; the fingers are unarmed,
but provided with hairs along their cutting edges.
From the description of this animal given by Nobili one would infer a com-
bination of the characters of Nephrops, Paranephrops and Cheraps. The
1 Contribuzioni alia Conoscenza della Fauna Carcinologica della Papuasia, delle MoUuche e dell'
Australia. Annali del Mus. Civ. Storia Nat. Genova, 1899, 40, p. 246.
CRAYFISHES. 353
branchial formula is the same as in the genus Cheraps, and essentially the same
as in Paranephrops; but according to Nobili the podobranchiae of the eighth
and ninth somites are not furnished with an ala or lamina in the genus Astacone-
phrops, whereas in the genus Cheraps these podobranchiae are alate.
Plate 4.
It differs from both of these species in its short and broad areola. Compared
with P. nicoleti, it differs in the lack of sculpture of the chela and carpus. Com-
pared with P. hassleri, the rostrum is shorter, broader, and more abruptly trun-
cate, the chela is rounded above and below and unprovided with the crest-like
series of low, squamous tubercles.
Six species of Parastacus have been previously described from Chile, viz.:—
P. chilensis (M. Edw.) in 1837, P. spinifrons (Philippi) in 1882, P. nicoleti (Phi-
lippi) in 1882, P. bimaculatus (Philippi) in 1894, P . agassizii Fax. in 1898, and P.
hassleri Fax. in 1898. The type of P. chilensis, a single dry specimen, is in the
Museum d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, and should be more fully described,
since Milne Edwards's diagnosis (Hist. Nat. Crust., 1837, 2, p. 333) is entirely
insufficient. In 1849 (Gay's Hist. Chile, ZooL, 3, p. 211, Atlas, 2, Crust, pi. 1,
f. 4) Nicolet described and figured as Astacus chilensis M. Edw. a crayfish cer-
tainly different from Milne Edwards's species, and R. A. Philippi therefore gave
Nicolet's species a new name, Astacus nicoleti, in a paper published in the Anales
de la Universidad de Chile, 1882, 61. In a paper published in 1898 when I was
ignorant of Philippi's paper, I also gave a name to Nicolet's crayfish, fortunately
the same name that had been already given it by Philippi. In the same paper
Philippi describes and figures a new species, Astacus spinifrons; the diagnosis is
as follows:—A. rostro elongato-triangulari ad basin utrinque spinula acuta;
carpo extus profunde sulcato, margine superiore grosse tuberculato; mano crassa
subtus rotundata; digitis haud lineato-sulcatis, intus basi longe barbato-ciliatis.
In 1894 Philippi ^ published a description of another new species of Parasta-
cus from Chile under the name of Astacus bimaculatus. This is probably the
species which I described later by the name of Parastacus agassizii (Proc. U. S.
Nat. Mus., 1898, 20, p. 690).
it is true, from Philippics figures of P . spinifrons, at least from the copy of those
figures in Dr. Ortmann's possession, in some respects, for instance the rostrum
is shorter and broader and the immobile finger of the large claw is much longer.
These discrepancies may be due to the inaccuracy of the original figures or of the
copy of these figures which is all that I have before me. Philippics diagnosis,
moreover, takes no account of the pronounced asymmetry of the chelipeds, a
marked feature of the specimen from the Paris Museum. I append a description
of the latter; future explorations in Chile will determine whether it is the same
species as Philippi's.
Cephalothorax subcylindrical, smooth, shorter than the abdomen; areola
broad, considerably less than one half the length of the anterior section of the
carapace; rostrum triangular, reaching to the distal end of the second antennu-
lary segment, upper surface plane, with slightly elevated margins; post-orbital
ridges obscurely marked except anteriorly where they form an elongate, low,
tubercle without an acute spine; the antero-lateral angle of the carapace is
produced to a prominent blunt angle below the orbit; there is no lateral or
branchiostegian spine. The abdominal pleura are broad, with rounded angles.
The antennal scales are broad, broadest in the middle; lower surface of the
peduncle of the antenna hairy; epistoma triangular, anterior angle acute; third
pair of maxillipeds clothed with dense hair below. Chelipeds unsymmetrical,
the right one being much the larger, meros pretty smooth, except on its lower
face which is provided with a row of small marginal tubercles and clothed with a
heavy coat of hair; the superior margin of the meros is destitute of a spine;
the carpus has a deep longitudinal groove along its external face; below this
groove the surface is smooth, above it there are small squamous tubercles which
on the superior border of the carpus assume the form of prominent tubercles, or
blunt teeth, four or five in number; the infero-interior face of the carpus of the
larger cheliped is likewise furnished with similar tubercles; the right (larger)
claw is very thick, with rounded superior and inferior borders; the body of the
claw is beset with flattened low tubercles which are most pronounced anteriorly,
near the socket of the dactylopodite; the fingers gape, are pitted in place of being
tuberculated, and there are about three blunt teeth on the cutting edge of each
finger, one of which is especially prominent; both fingers are heavily bearded at
the base, especially on the inner side; the left (smaller) claw is nearly smooth,
with long and slender fingers that meet throughout their length, destitute of
teeth but furnished with a beard at the base, like the larger claw. Inner branch
of the last pair of abdominal appendages armed with a submarginal spinule at
356 CRAYFISHES.
the distal end of the median rib. Length, 90 mm., length of carapace, 41 mm.,
width of carapace, 20 mm., width of base of rostrum, 6.5 mm., length of rostrum,
9 mm., length of areola, 11.5 mm., breadth of areola, 7 mm., length of antennal
scale, 7 mm., greatest breadth of do., 4 mm., length of larger claw, 31 mm.,
breadth of do., 17.5 mm., length of superior margin of hand, 10 mm., length of
dactylus, 19 mm., length of smaller chela, 23 mm., breadth of do., 9 mm., length
of dactylus, 16 mm.
There are four specimens of this species in the U. S. National Museum from
the rivulets of MM. Bock and Jones, Lake Nahuel Huapi, on the eastern slope
of the Cordilleras in Argentina. The chelipeds are preserved in three of these
specimens; in two the larger claw is on the left side, in one it is the right, as in
the Paris specimen.
The tip of the rostrum is setose in this species, and in most cases there are
a pair of minute, horny, bead-like lateral teeth just back of the point of the ros-
trum. The rostrum is therefore essentially like that of P. himaculatus. From
the latter the present species differs in having much stouter, shorter-fingered,
more heavily tuberculated claws, and a somewhat longer metathorax and nar-
rower areola.
Parastacus agassizii (= himaculatus) .has been recorded from Lake Nahuel
Huapi by Ortmann (Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, 41, p. 293). The specimens
should be examined anew with reference to the possibility of their belonging to
the present species, P. spinifrons f
Specimens from Puerto Montt, Lake Llanquihue, on the opposite slope of
the Cordilleras, in Chile, are said by Doflein (Sitzungsber. Akad. Wissensch.
Mlinchen, 1900, 30, p. 133) to agree wholly with my description of P. agassizii ^
( = himaculatus).
Astacus himaculatus R. A. PHILIPPI, Anales Universidad Chile, 1894, 87, p. 378 (Chile).
Parastacus agassizii FAXON, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Feb. 17, 1898, 20, p. 690, pi. 70, figs. 4, 5 (Talcahuano,
Chile). DOFLEIN, Sitzungsber. Akad. Wissensch. Miinchen, 1900, 30, p. 132 (Puerto Montt, Lago
Llanquihue, Chile). LENZ, Zool. Jahrb., Supp., May 2, 1902, 5, p. 736 (Tumbes, Chile). PORTER,
Revista Chilena de Hist. Nat., Dec. 31, 1904, 8, p. 258, PI. 9 (Contulmo and Chilian, Chile).
1 The error in the branchial formula of P. agassizii as it appears in my paper in the Proc. U. S. Nat-
Mus., 1898, 20, p. 692, has been pointed out by Doflein. This error was due to an unfortunate disloca-
tion of the table in printing, as is evident on comparing the table of the branchial arrangement in the
genus Parastacus on p. 683.
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A single specimen of this species has been lately received at the Museum of
Comparative Zoology from Valparaiso, Chile.
As noted above, P. agassizii has been recorded from Lake Nahuel Huapi
in Argentina by Ortmann (Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc, 41, p. 293). Specimens
from this locality in the U. S. National Museum belong to a different although
similar species, P . spinifrons (Phil.)? and Dr. Ortmann's determination should
therefore be verified.
I think that my P. agassizii is the same species as the one previously
described by R. A. Philippi in 1894 under the name of Astacus bimaculatus.
Philippi's description is as follows:—•
"Astacus bimaculatus Ph.
"A. cephalothorace utrinque macula magna triangulari, albida notato; rostro elongato, peracuto,
utrinque ante apicem denticulo armato, unde lineae elevatae sensim divergentes nascuntur; chelis valde
inaequalibus, sinistra majore; carpo ejus extus inflato, velut bullato, margine superiore unispinoso;
digitis gracilibus, denticulatis. Longit. corporis 72 mm., chelae majoris 37 mm.
" E l color del cuerpo es oscuro siendo una mezcla de negro vcrdoso i de pardo rojizo, como en laa
demas especies, i en cado lado se ve una gran mancha triangular blanquizca; su superficie es lisa, pero las
patas anteriores est^n cubiertas de granulaciones bastante gruesas, que faltan solo en la parte inflada
del carpo. El pico es casi t a n largo como la escama situada en la base de las antenas esteriores; se
adclgaza paulatinamente en una punta mui aguda e inclinada. De cado lado i mui cerca de la punta
se notan dos dientecitos puntiagudos, de dondc parten listones bastante elevados i agudos, qui diverjen
paulatinamente. Un dientecito mui puntiagTido se observa tambien ante el borde de la 6rbita. Las
patas anteriores son mui desiguales, la izquierda es mucho mas larga i sobrc todo mas gruesa; por lo
demas su hechura es la misma. En el borde superior del articulo tercero se nota una espina, i dos o tres
en el borde inferior. El carpo muestra tambien una o dos espinas en su borde superior, i en su lado
esterior una hinchazon casi semi-globosa, mui notable en el carpo izquierdo, menor pero bien aparente
en el derecho. La mano es mucho mas angosta i estirada que en las otras tres especies chilenas, sobre
todo los dedos, cuyo borde interior es finamente dentado. Las otras partes del cuerpo no ofrecen nada
de particular."
This description agrees pretty well with the species which I described as
P. agassizii, but I do not know what Philippi means by asserting that the figure
oi Astacus fluviatilis in the Regne Animal of Cuvier (Disciples' Ed., pi. 49, fig. 2)
is an exact representation of his new Chilean species. The colour of the speci-
mens from Talcahuano had long since vanished when I described them. Porter,
however, has more recently described the living colours of P . agassizii, and they
seem to conform in the main to the colour scheme of P. bimaculatus as described
by Philippi:
"El color es en el dorso i flancos del cuerpo bruno-olivdceo, notdndose en cada costado del cefalo-
t6rax, por detras del surco cervical, una gran mancha triangular de color amarillo limon cuyo vertice
redondeado alcanza hasta la areola, confundiendose en esta rejion con la del lado opuesto en muchos ejem-
plarcs. A veces se ve ademas una mancha redondeada del mismo color a pocos millmetros del borde
anterior del carapacho. Los tuberculillos escamiformes de las quelas lo mismo que las espinitas del rostro
358 CRAYFISHES.
son anaranjados, color que se observa en la parte inferior del cuerpo e inferior e interna de las patas.
Estas ultimas son de color bruno-olivdceo o bien olivdceo, especialmente en las quelas."^
tion of the carapace and the areola it agrees rather with A. leniusculus. As
these two species inhabit the same region it is possible that they interbreed and
produce hybrids.
claws and grown them anew (see Plate 11, 12). It is interesting to note the
restored claws never assume the normal form but are elongated and flattened.
When both chelipeds have been lost and re-grown simultaneously, the result is
an individual with perfectly symmetrical claws on the right and left sides, so
different in shape from the normal claws that one might easily be led to believe
that it is a distinct species. Such a specimen is shown in Plate 12, fig. 2. The
restored claws in these cases assume an ancestral, less highly specialized from.
Paratype:— Silvies River, Burns, Harney Co., Oregon, July 27, 1904,
J. O. Snyder coll., 1 9 . U. S. N. M.
This form bears the same relation to A. gambelii as A. leniusculus does to
A. trowhridgii. In the development of the posterior pair of post-orbital spines it
shows an affinity to A. nigrescens. It appears to be connected with A. gambelii
by intermediate forms. A large male upwards of 3i in. long in the U. S. National
Museum, collected at the mouth of St. Joe River, Coeur d'Alene Lake, Idaho,
has the long narrow rostrum and the elongated hand and fingers oi A.g. connedens,
but the posterior pair of post-orbital spines are wanting, and specimens (also in
the U. S. National Museum) from Warm Springs, Harney Co., Oregon, in most
respects like typical A. gamhelii, show traces of the posterior post-orbital spines.
Dimensions of a male:—Length, 65 mm.; length of carapace, 34 mm.;
length of abdomen, 31 mm.; length of posterior section of carapace, 11 mm.;
width of areola, 5 mm.; length of chela, 31 mm.; breadth of chela, 7.5 mm.;
length of dactylus, 18 mm.
Plate 8, Fig. 2.
Two specimens, 1 d', 1 9 , in the U. S. N. M., No. 20,073, from Piobesi, near
Turin, Italy, received from the Turin Zoological Museum agree in the essential
characters with the Pompeiian specimens.
From these specimens I infer that the Cisalpine crayfishes constitute a
marked geographical race, which in some respects (viz. the form of the rostrum,
antennal scale, epistoma, and gonopods) shows an approach to Astacus astacus.
It is not, however, liable to be confounded with that species, since the median
carina of the rostrum is not denticulated, and the post-orbital ridges are entire,
not broken up into an anterior and a posterior section as is the case with Astacus
astacus. In the important matter of the branchial apparatus, moreover, Asiacus
pallipes italicus differs from A. astacus and agrees with A. pallipes in having but
two rudimentary pleurobranchiae on each side of the body, upon the eleventh
and twelfth body-segments.^
The crayfish found in the neighbourhood of Madrid, Spain, is in almost
every respect like the typical French Astacus pallipes. It does, however, show
an approach to the Italian examples in one regard, viz. an enlargement of the
anterior process of the epistoma, and with this in a few specimens goes a tendency
toward a broadening of the rostrum. It would nevertheless be an over-refine-
ment to separate the Spanish crayfishes from Astacus pallipes.
Camharus digueti Bouv., Bull. Mus. d'Hist. Nat., Paris, 1897, 3, p . 225.
Cambarus carinalus FAXON, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Feb. 17, 1898, 20, p. 648.
A young female crayfish, 35 mm. long (M. C. Z., No. 7,405) w^as collected
by Mr. J. L. Peters at Camp Menzel, 36 miles from the mouth of the Hondo
River, in the Territory of Quintana Roo, Mexico, March 27, 1912. It is closely
affined to C. pilosimanus and C. williamsoni of Ortmann, if not identical with one
of these. It presents certain features, however, that are not found in either of
Ortmann's species; viz: — there are two well-marked spines, one above the
^ This was determined by examination of the branchial apparatus of two examples from the type
lot oi A. p. italicus from the River Sarno. The rudimentary gills borne on the eleventh and twelfth
somites have the form of reduced simple filaments representing the stem of the completely formed gill.
CRAYFISHES. 363
other, on each side of the latero-anterior margin of the carapace, above the well-
developed branchiostegian spines. This is a feature that one would not suspect
to be a juvenile mark, and it may denote specific diversity. There are, moreover,
two sharp spines on the second segment of the antennae near the base of the
antennal scales.
The chelae of the specimen collected by Mr. Peters are slender and nearly
smooth, the fingers sparsely pilose, the spines of the carpus and merus well devel-
oped, as in young specimens of C. pilosimanus according to Ortmann. The
anterior segment of the telson is three-spined on each side, the inner spine being
very small; the median longitudinal rib on the dorsal face of the inner branch
of the last abdominal appendages ends in a spine some distance from the posterior
margin.
The type locality of C. pilosimanus is Coban, Guatemala. Dr. Ortmann
also records one specimen, in the Museum of Natural History of Paris, from
Belize, British Honduras, a locality not very remote from the place where Mr.
Peters got his specimen. Mr. A. S. Pearse (13th Ann. Rep. Mich. Acad. Sci.,
1911, p. 110) has more recently recorded it from Cuatotolapam, Canton of
Acayucan, State of Vera Cruz, Mexico. The type locality of C. williamsoni is
Los Amates, Province of Izabal, Guatemala.
Camharus consobrinus SAUSS., Rev. et Mag. Zool., 1857, ser. 2, 9, p. 101; Mem. Soc. Phys. Hist. Nat.
Geneve, 1858, 14, p. 457, pi. 3,fig.21.
Cambarus cubensis consobrinus FAXON, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Oct. 1912, 54, p. 458.
In this form of the Cuban Crayfish the rostrum is narrower than in the
typical C. cubensis, more deeply concave above, its margins more distinctly
raised and less convergent between the base and the pair of lateral spines near the
distal end; these lateral rostral spines, moreover, are much better developed than
in the typical form, and the rostral acumen is longer; the post-orbital ridge is
more prominent, distinctly grooved along its outer face, and produced anteriorly
into an acute spine much more strongly emphasized than in the typical C. cuben-
sis; there is, too, an evident lateral spine on each side of the carapace, on the hind
border of the cervical groove,— a spine which is not present in C. cubensis cuben-
sis. The external sexual organs are alike in the two forms.
Nine specimens of this crayfish (5 cf, 4 9 ), M. C. Z., No. 7,343, were secured
by Dr. Thomas Barbour from lads who were using them for fish-bait, at San
Antonio de los Banos, in the interior of the Province of Habana, Cuba, April,
1909.
Cotypes of Saussure's Cambarus consobrinus are now dispersed among the
Museums of Geneva, Paris, Berlin, and Washington. It is very likely that
Saussure's material included some of the typical form of C. cubensis; his descrip-
tion and figures, nevertheless, were grounded on the form with long rostral acu-
men, and distinct rostral and lateral thoracic spines; the type locality of conso-
brinus, moreover, as specified by Saussure, is the central part of the island.
In the cotype in the U. S. National Museum (No. 20,684, ex Mus. Geneva),
^ A New Species of the Genus Cambarus from the Isle of Pines. Ann. Carnegie Mus., May 5, 1913,
8, p . 414-417.
CRAYFISHES. 365
a male, dried and transfixed with a pin, the rostrum is abnormal, the right margin
thereof being pared away toward the tip, carrying with it the right marginal
spine. This deformity was evidently present in the living specimen. On the
left side the marginal rostral tooth or spine is well developed, as are also the
spines at the anterior end of the post-ocular ridges. The lateral thoracic spines
too are fairly well marked.
Its range is now known to include the five states, Texas, Arkansas, New Mexico,
Oklahoma, and Kansas.
This species has been hitherto known only through the type specimen in the
Museum of Comparative Zoology (No. 232), a male of the first form received
early in the history of the Museum from Professor Lewis R. Gibbes of Charleston,
S. C. The United States National Museum has recently received it in ample
numbers from the Agricultural College, Oktibbeha Co., Miss., and also from
Muldon, Monroe Co., Miss., and Farmdale, Ala. It is a pest to the cotton
growers of these regions, riddling the fields with its burrows, and devouring the
young plants; to a less degree it is destructive to young blades of maize or Indian
corn.^
Hagen's Crayfish attains to a length of three inches. It is nearly related
to C. gracilis Bundy, replacing that species in more southern localities. In C.
gracilis the sides of the rostrum are more nearly parallel; the sub-orbital angle,
which is pronounced in C. gracilis, is wanting in C. hagenianus. The branchio-
cardiac lines, although contiguous in both C. gracilis and C. hagenianus for a
considerable distance, obliterating the areola, are united for less distance in the
former than in the latter; the abdomen is much broader in C. gracilis, and the
longitudinal rib on the upper side of the inner branch of the last pair of abdominal
appendages terminates in a spine which lies some distance from the posterior
margin, while in C. hagenianus this rib extends clear to the margin, where the
spine projects freely. The gonopods of the first form male are formed after a
similar fashion in C. hagenianus, C. gracilis, and C. simulans; there are three
terminal teeth (one of which is compressed or laminate) in C. gracilis and C.
1 See U. S. Depart. Agric, Rept. Bureau Biol. Surv. for 1911, p. 9; and A. K. Fisher, Crawfish as
Crop Destroyers, Yearbook U. S. Depart. Agric. for 1911, 1912, p. 319-324, pi. 22.
CRAYFISHES. 367
simulans, but the smallest of the three is smaller in C. simulans than in C gracilis
and lacks the horny texture; in C. hagenianus the truncate end of the gonopods
bears but two teeth.
In the second form of the male the gonopods are less perfectly finished at
the tips, the terminal teeth being blunter and membranous. The annulus
ventralis of the female C. hagenianus is much Hke the annulus of C. gracilis,
being produced on each side of the median line into a prominent tubercle, each
tubercle tending to denticulation.
The specimens from Muldon, Miss., are peculiar in having a beard along
the internal border of the upper face of the hand in the males, as in Cambarus
harhatus and Astacus gambelii.
Colour of living specimens from Muldon, Miss.:—Male (Plate 1, fig. 2),
metacarapace violet-gray with round greenish spots on the branchial regions;
procarapace greenish, dashed with red anteriorly; abdomen light orange, with
two longitudinal rows of irregular olive spots; chelae and carpus olive, the
tubercles and granules green; fingers and antennae orange, beard whitish.
Female (Plate 1, fig. 1), metacarapace bluish; procarapace, abdomen, and
chelae tending to green at the expense of the orange tints.
Few cases of colour differences correlated with sex have been noted among
Crustacea. See Andrews, Zool. Anz., Apr. 25, 1911, 37, p. 401.
This species is still imperfectly known; Erichson's type, which came from
Mexico, is no longer extant; it was described as having hooks on both the third
and fourth pairs of legs in the male. A female individual from Mexico, in the
collection of the Academy of N a t u r a l Sciences of Philadelphia, was referred to
this species by Dr. Hagen and myself, although with some doubt on account of
the want of male specimens. I n 1906 Dr. Ortmann (Proc. Washington Acad.
Sci., 8, p. 15-19) described and assigned to this species a male belonging to the
Philadelphia Academy, collected by Professor E. D . Cope in 1885 in Lake Xochi-
milco, south of the City of Mexico, in the Federal District; in this specimen the
legs of the third pair are furnished with a very small tubercle only, while those
of the fourth pair are armed with a strongly developed hook.
Four specimens, three male, one female, recently collected by Mr. W. M .
Mann at San Miguel, State of Hidalgo, Mexico, and now in the Museum of
Comparative Zoology, conform to Ortmann's description of the Cope specimens,
barring the fact t h a t there is no vestige of even a tubercle on the third pair of
legs of the male, the fourth pair alone being provided with hooks; these speci-
mens may represent an undescribed species, but on account of the sad dearth of
requisite material and the loss of the type of C. wiegmanni the elucidation of
this question must needs be deferred to a later time.
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Plate 5.
New localities:—FLORIDA: Fort Florida, Volusia Co. (M. C. Z.); ponds near
Tampa, Hillsboro Co. (U. S. N. M.); Lake Butler, Tarpon Springs, Hillsboro
Co. (U. S. N. M.); Lake Yohopekalize, Kissimmee, Osceola Co. (U. S.
N. M.).
I was told in Great Barrington that these animals were introduced 10-15 years
ago into Lake Buel, on the borders of the neighboring towns of Monterey and
New Marlborough, by anglers who were using them as fish-bait, that they are
now exceedingly numerous in Lake Buel and have been probably transferred
thence to neighboring ponds by boys.
C.'ajfmis has been introduced into Europe as a piscicultural experiment in
acclimatization at the Station Agricole at Fecamp, France,^ and elsewhere.
This species has also been found of late in Central Park Lake, New York
City, and in Prospect Park Lake, Brooklyn; it has also been reported as intro-
duced into a lake in East Hampton, Middlesex Co., Conn. (Bull. N. Y. Zool.
Soc, Nov. 1912, 16, p. 924).
The locality Jimenez, Mexico, is such an extraordinary one for this species
1 Acclimatation dcs Ecrevisses Am^ricaines. Revue Scientifique, Jan. 9, 1897, ser. 4, 7, p. 56.
ft
374 CRAYFISHES.
that one might well suspect some error if the origin of the specimens were not
so well attested. Seven specimens, males of the first form, now in the Field
Museum of Natural History, were collected by Mr. S. E. Meek, together with
four female C. virilis, June 9, 1901, in the drainage of the Rio de los Conchos,
one of the southern tributaries of the Rio Grande. They were picked out from
among the fishes which were the chief object of Mr. Meek's exploration of
Mexico and sent to me for determination in January, 1902.
The conditions obtaining at the time and place of their capture are thus
described by Mr. Meek in his account of the fishes secured during his Mexican
explorations of 1901 :^
" A t Jimenez the Rio Conchos was nearly dry. Our collections were made from a few deep holes
about two miles below the city. These contained a large amount of aquatic vegetation, which made
collecting difficult and unsatisfactory. The water was very clear, and in the deeper places were seen
many large suckers which we were unable to capture. Sunfishes were very abundant. All of these
streams become large and deep in the rainy season, at which time the Rio Conchos at Jiminez becomes
two hundred or more feet in width and as much as fifteen feet in depth."
1 A Contribution to the Ichthyology of Mexico. Field Columbian Museum, Publ. 65, Zool. Ser.,
May, 1902, 3, p. 65.
2 Ortmann, Mem, Carnegie Mus., 1906,2, p. 445.
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tubercles on its surface; the inner border of the hand is furnished with squamoid
tubercles disposed for the most in two longitudinal rows; along the distal half
of the outer border of the hand there runs a low, but well-marked, carina; the
dactylus is tuberculate on its free border, blunt-toothed (like the immobile finger)
along its prehensile edge and ridged longitudinally along its outer face; the
carpus is armed with an acute spine on the middle of its internal border, and with
a small tubercle at each end of the same border; below, the median carpal spine
is well pronounced and there is a small acute spine at the inferior point of articu-
lation with the propodus; the two customary spines are present near the anterior
end of the upper margin of the merus; the outer of the two rows of spines on the
lower face of the merus is reduced to two at the distal end. The dorsal carina of
the inner branch of the last abdominal appendages terminates in a tooth a little
distance within the hind margin.
The gonopods, in the second form of the male, are long and straight, reaching
forward, when the abdomen is flexed, as far as the basal segments of the second
pair of legs; their rami are rather thick, blunt at the tip, and the outer one is
but a trifle longer than the inner one; when viewed from the inner side the two
rami are fused up to within a short distance of the end of the organ.
The annulus ventralis of the female is bituberculate in front, unituberculate
behind, the anterior and posterior walls being separated by a transverse fossa
which is divided longitudinally by the sigmoid fissure.
Dimensions of a female:—length, 73 mm., length of carapace, 37 mm.,
length of rostrum from tip to a level with the post-orbital spines, 11 mm., width
of rostrum at base, 5 mm., length of areola, 12 mm., width of areola, 2 mm., length
of cheliped, 54.5 mm., length of chela, 27.5 mm., breadth of chela, 12 mm., length
of dactylus, 16 mm.
This crayfish is closely related to the Camharus spinosus of Bundy, but is
different in the following respects:— the body is more villous, the metacarapace
longer in proportion to the procarapace, the anterior process of the epistome
is much narrower than in the types of Bundy's species and (what has most
weight in regarding it as a subspecies) the external sexual organs are clearly
different. The gonopods in C. s. gulielmi being shorter, the rami thicker, blunter,
nearly equal in length, and separate for but a short distance from the tip, while
in C. spinosus the rami are slender, pointed, the outer one exceeding the inner
by a great distance and the split between the two parts involving a large part
of the length of the organ. The annulus ventralis of the female, though of the
same type as that of the typical C. spinosus, differs slightly in having a more open
transverse fossa.
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Austin, Huron Co.; Sand Beach, Huron Co.; Pinnebog River, Port Crescent,
Huron Co.; Mud Creek, Bay Port, Huron Co.; Black River, near Port Huron,
Saint Clair Co.; Pine River, West Harrisville, Alcona Co.; Au Sable River, Au
Sable, Iosco Co.; Rabbit's Back Creek, 5 miles above Saint Ignace, Mackinac Co.;
12 miles from Straits of Mackinac. MINNESOTA: Deer River, Itasca Co.; Lake
of the Woods. NORTH DAKOTA: Borit's Ford, Cheyenne River. NEBRASKA:
Lincoln Creek, York, York Co. MISSOURI: Clinton, Henry Co. (U. S. N. M.).
COLORADO: Republican River, Wray, Yuma CO. ( M . C . Z . ) . MEXICO: Jimenez,
State of Chihuahua (Field Mus. Nat. Hist.).
The Mexican specimens (four females) were collected by Mr. S. E. Meek
from deep holes, Rio de los Conchos, about two miles below Jimenez, June 9,
1901. For the circumstances of their capture, see under Cambarus propinquus,
page 373, 374.
along the Ohio shore of Lake Erie from Lucas County, through Ottawa County,
to Erie and Lorain Counties, from the New York borders of the same Lake in
Chautauqua and Erie Counties, from the eastern end of Lake Ontario and from
Lake Oneida; while Ortmann's discovery of the specimens in the Albany Mu-
seum from Renssalaer County, N. Y., extends the eastward distribution of this
crayfish up to Berkshire County, Mass. In the light of all the evidence now col-
lected it seems to me possible, if not probable, that Berkshire County is the
eastern limit of the natural distribution of this species and that the discontinuity
results from imperfect exploration of the waters of New York State. It should
be noted however, for what it is worth, that the Berkshire countrymen whom I
have questioned believe the crayfishes are a comparatively late addition to the
fauna of the Lakes.
However this may be, there can be no reasonable doubt that the presence
of this crayfish in Worcester and Middlesex Counties, Mass., and in Lake Winne-
pesaukee, N. H., is the result of artificial transference at a comparatively recent
date. The first time this animal was found in Walden Pond, Concord, Middle-
sex County, Mass., so far as I can learn, was in the summer of 1909, when two
or more were captured, as I am told by Mr. Reginald Heber Howe, Jr., of the
Middlesex School, Concord. In 1910 Mr. Howe sent me a fine specimen, a
male about 3 | inches long, which had been taken in the Pond, and in early Octo-
ber, 1911, the Rev. Smith Owen Dexter and Mr. H. Richardson of Concord
secured two specimens by a long search under the stones on the edge of Walden.
Mr. Dexter's specimen, taken from the Pond the 9th of October, when about l i
inches long, lived in my aquarium until April 6, 1912, casting its shell twice,
on February 20 and March 19, and attaining a length of if inches. On the 14th
of June, 1912, Mr. Dexter collected four specimens, ranging from 2^ to 4^ inches
in length, from the borders of the Pond, and still more during the following
month. On the 24th of July, 1912, Mr. W. F. Clapp and I got six specimens
there.
I have been told by citizens of Concord that two men who fished in Walden
Pond about ten years ago (c. 1903), using crayfishes for bait, threw their surplus
bait into the Pond and thus unwittingly stocked it with these creatures.
Walden Pond is apparently a most uncongenial abode for Camharus immunis,
being clear as a well and almost destitute of vegetable growth. The favourite
haunts of this species are rather muddy waters stocked with a rank growth of
pond weeds.
In 1913 specimens of this crayfish were collected in Boone Pond, Stow,
382 CRAYFISHES.
Simonds's Pond, Franklin Co. (M. C. Z.); Three-Mile Creek, Oswego, Oswego
Co. (U. S. N. M.). VIEGINIA: Broad Run and Gap Run, Fauquier Co. (U.
S. N. M.); Orkney Springs, Shenandoah Co. (U. S. N. M.); Stony Man Mt.,
3000 ft., Madison Co. (U. S. N. M.); Peaks of Otter, 2600 ft., Bedford Co.
(U. S. N. M.). W E S T VIRGINIA: West Branch of Potomac River, 5 miles west
of Circleville, Pendleton Co. (U. S. N. M.); Rich Creek, Spanishburg, Mercer
Co. (U. S. N. M.); Trubie's Run, 7 miles above Buckhannon, Upshur Co.
(U. S. N. M.). NORTH CAROLINA: Looking-Glass Creek, Transylvania Co.,
3300 ft. (U. S. N. M.); near Montreat, Buncombe Co. (U. S. N. M.). T E N -
NESSEE: 7 miles northwest of Chattanooga, Hamilton Co. (U. S. N. M.);
Little River, a tributary of the Tennessee River at Cade's Cave (U. S. N. M.).
The Barton's Crayfish of Aroostook County in Northern Maine (of which
there is a large collection in the United States National Museum from the
Allegash River a little below Chamberlain Lake, Churchill Lake, Eagle or
Heron Lake, Crosslake Throughfare, and Bean Lake, St. Francis River) is a
small, clean form that in these clear, cool, northern waters shows a slight
differentiation from the typical C. hartonii from the Middle States. The
rostrum is more strongly decurved and the fingers are narrower and more cylin-
drical and gape widely at the base. The differences between this form and the
type nevertheless do not seem to be great enough or constant enough to warrant
a subspecific separation.
'^ Rostrum of medium length, very broad, nearly plane or slightly excavated
above and with a more or less distinct, median, longitudinal carina; acumen
short, broad, with concave sides, its tip strongly upturned. Carapace with a
spinulose angle below the eye; branchiostegian spine obsolescent; areola of
moderate width. Telson bi- or tri-spinose on each side. Antennae, when
extended backward, reaching beyond the middle of the abdomen. Chelipeds
stout and heavy, chelae broad and strong, heavily punctate above and below;
inner margin of hand obscurely serrato-denticulate; fingers usually gaping at
the base, strong down curved, pitted in lines, upper surface heavily ribbed.
Otherwise essentially the same as typical C. hartonii.
^'This form, which I regard as a well-marked subspecies, is in typical ex-
amples very like C. hartonii in general, but different in the following regards:—
the carapace is a little more cylindrical, the rostrum broader and flatter, and
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always furnished near the tip with a median longitudinal carina. This carina is
usually well defined and extends from near the acumen backward to about the
middle of the broad flat surface of the rostrum; it is generally followed by an ill-
defined and very shallow foveola. In less typical specimens the carina is reduced
to a very low, rounded, almost invisible elevation just between the lateral angles
of the rostrum, or in some cases is wanting altogether; in such specimens the
other characters,— cylindrical carapace and broad, flat rostrum,— will hardly
be sufficient to separate them from other closely related subspecies.
''Type, U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 23,962. Gandy Creek, Osceola, Randolph
Co., W. Va. W. P. Hay coll., July 12, 1899. Mas, forma secunda.
''This crayfish is abundant in the main stream as well as in the tributaries
of the Tygart's Valley and Cheat Rivers in Randolph County, West Virginia.
I have collected typical examples from the Tygart's Valley River at Beverly
and near Elkins. It is most abundant, however, further east in the Cheat River
basin, and Osceola may be regarded as ajDproximately the centre of its distribu-
tion."—W. P. Hay MS.
C. b. carinirostris Hay is a slightly differentiated local form of C. bartonii
found chiefly in the mountain streams of Randolph Co., W. Va., the Cheat and
Tygart's Valley Rivers and their tributaries. Outside of Randolph County, Mr.
Hay secured a few specimens at Albright, Preston Co., at Queens, Upshur Co.,
in the above-named river-basins. It is also probably to be found in the upper
waters of the Kanawha River basin further to the south, since there are a few
specimens in the U. S. National Museum (Nos. 23,975, 28,605) from the West
Fork of the Greenbrier River, near Durbin, Pocahontas Co., and from Laurel
Creek, in second Water Cave, near Greenville, Monroe Co., that are pretty char-
acteristic examples of this race.
The median carina on the upper surface of the rostrum is a rather elusive
character, in many individuals it is scarcely if at all apparent. Such specimens
retain, nevertheless the peculiar quadrangular outline of the rostrum, which
is often a trifle broader at the base of the acumen than it is in the middle.
The areola is of moderate width and not so thickly pitted as it is in C. b.
montanus.
The dimensions of Mr. Hay's type are as follows:—
Length, 63 mm.; length of carapace, 32 mm.; length of areola, 11^ mm.;
width of areola, 2^ mm.; width of rostrum between the eyes, 4 mm.; length of
chela, 25 mm.; breadth of chela 11^ mm.; length of dactylus, 16i mm.
38G CRAYFISHES.
were pointed out in my Revision, p. 64. It may be well in our present more
advanced knowledge of the C. bartonii group to recognize C. montanus as a
geographical race or subspecies of C. hartonii.
In the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia there
is a young male, labelled "James River, Va., C. montanus?'^ which is very prob-
ably a cotype or paratype of Girard's Camharus viontanus. With regard to this
and other quasi types of Girard's species in the Philadelphia Academy, the reader
is referred to Hagen's Monograph, p. 7, and my Revision, p. 11.
I have exaniined specimens of C. bartonii montanus, nearly or quite typical,
from the following localities:—VIRGINIA : Wytheville, Wythe Co. (U. S. N. M., No.
13,966, M. C. Z., No. 3,838); Rocky Gap, Bland Co. (U. S. N. M., No. 28,568.)
WEST VIRGINIA: Horsepen Creek, [Mingo Co.?] (U. S. N. M. No. 28,555); Madam
Creek, tributary of New River, opposite Hinton, Summers Co. (U. S. N. M.,
No. 28,556, M. C. Z., No. 7,398); Bergen's Springs, 12 miles above Hinton (U. S.
N. M., No. 28,566); Delashmeet Creek, Kegley, Mercer Co. (U. S. N. M., No.
28,610); Bluestone River, just above its mouth, Mercer Co. (U. S. N. M., No.
28,570); mouth of Delashmeet Creek, Bluestone River, Mercer Co. (U. S. N. M.,
No. 28,565); Bluestone River, Abb's Valley (U. S. N. M., No. 28,569); East
River, Mercer Co. (U. S. N. M.); Rich Creek, Spanishburg, Mercer Co. (U. S.
N. M.); Barrenche Creek, Perrysville, McDowell Co. (U. S. N. M., No. 28,573);
War Creek, McDowell Co. (U. S. N. M., Nos. 28,564, 28,580); Guyandotte
River, Baileysville, Wyoming Co. (U. S. N. M., Nos. 28,562, 28,578, 28c^).
Isolated localities from which I have seen specimens of C. bartonii very
closely resembling the form montanus in the breadth and punctation of the areola
are: Alum Creek, Franklin Co., Ohio, R. C. Osburn and E. B. Williamson (U. S.
N. M., No. 22,351), Cincinnati, Ohio (M. C. Z., No. 288), creek at Knoxville,
Tenn., Walter Faxon (M. C. Z., No. 3,477). From Cogar's Mill, Elk River,
Kanawha Co., W. Va., I have seen an interesting lot of specimens that combine
the characters of C. b. montanus and C. b. longulus, the rostrum and chela of
montanus going with the reduced sub-orbital angle of longulus. These specimens
are in the U. S. National Museum, No. 23,990, and in the Museum of Compara-
tive Zoology, No. 7,401.
pression running along the upper and lower faces of the immobile finger. In the
United States National Museum there are many specimens from West Fork
of Greenbrier River, W. Va. (No. 23,977, 23,978) and from Crane Creek, W. Va.,
which are very nearly typical examples of C. h. rohusius. They differ slightly,
it is true, from more northern specimens in having a little broader areola and less
pronounced impressions upon the immobile finger. In these regards they show
an approach to C. b. montanus, from which the form robustus is probably derived.
Specimens collected at Wytheville, Wythe Co., Va. (TJ. S. N. M., No. 13,966,
M. C. Z., No. 3,838) which were referred to C. b. robustus by me in 1890 (Proc.
TJ. S. Nat. Mus., 12, 622) are in reality C. b. montanus.
Examples from Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania Co., Va., were formerly referred
to C. robustus by Hagen in his Monograph, p. 80, and by myself in my Revision,
p. 61, 67, but they are not typical examples of C. robustus. These specimens
(M. C. Z., Nos. 3,615, 3,797) are 'm. many ways like to C. acuminatus in the ros-
trum which is longer and more tapering than in robustus, in the relatively short
posterior section of the carapace, greater width of the areola, and the highly
developed spines at the base of the antennal scales, on the carpus, and on the
merus. The lateral spine of the carapace is distinctly developed on almost all
of the Fredericksburg specimens. A similar form is found at Raleigh, N. C.
(U. S.N. M. No. 22,355).
After eliminating the specimens which have been wrongly identified with
C. robustus, the distribution of the latter race, in its true form, is restricted, as
far as known, to the following regions:—ONTARIO: Toronto, Weston. M I C H I -
IGAN: Wayne, Washtenaw, Oakland, Sanilac, Huron, Oscoda, Crawford, Alcona
and Ionia Counties. OHIO: Knox, Lorain, Cuyahoga, and Ashtabula Counties.
N E W YORK: Chautauqua, Genesee, Allegany, Monroe, Wayne, Tompkins,
Oswego, Madison, Jefferson, St. Lawrence, Herkimer and Hamilton Counties.
PENNSYLVANIA: Erie, Crawford, Warren, McKean, and Allegheny Counties (St.
Lawrence and Upper Ohio drainage). W E S T VIRGINIA: West Fork of Green-
brier River and Crane Creek.
Cambarus bartonii robustus is a sombre-coloured crayfish in life (Plate 3), the
dominant color of the upper surface being a dusky olive tone, nearly uniform
and little relieved by the inconspicuously red-tipped fingers of the large claw.
The ambulatory appendages have a somewhat bluish cast, and the ventral
surface of the creature tends to a dull whitish tint. After the animal is placed
in alcohol, a large, bright red, quadrangular patch presently appears on the
branchiostegites behind the cervical groove, denoting that part of the shell which
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is most susceptible to the action of the liquid. After some hours the red colour
extends over the whole branchial region and for a time is sharply defined from
the median areola and the other parts of the body, which still retain the dusky
colour of the living animal. These striking colour-patterns resulting from
recent immersion in alcohol might easily be mistaken for natural life colours b y
one who had not witnessed the change, and it suggests the probability t h a t some
writers have been misled into describing such colours as those of the living animal.
Randall, for instance, in the Journal of the Academy of N a t u r a l Sciences of Phila-
delphia, 8, p. 138, PL 7, describes and figures Astacus oreganus ( = A. lenius-
culus Dana?) as having a red spot on each side of the carapace, quite similar to
the red spot which temporarily shows in Cambarus b. robustus recently immersed
in alcohol. So, too, the whitish or lemon-yellow spot on the branchiostegites of
Parastacus bimaculatus Philippi (Anales Universidad Chile, 87, p . 378), which is
probably the same species t h a t I described under the name Parastacus agassizii
{cf. the colour description of this species by Prof. Carlos E . Porter in Re vista
Chilena de Historia Natural, 8, p . 258, pi. 9, fig. b) m a y possibly be the result
of the action of alcohol on freshly killed specimens.
margins of the carapace destitute of any marked angle below the eye. A small
spine on each side of the carapace on the posterior edge of the cervical groove.
/Areola long and broad, I as broad as long, thickly strewn with impressed dots.
Anterior process of the epistome triangular, truncated anteriorly in old individ-
uals. Chelae large, flattened, internal border furnished with a row of low tuber-
cles, with another row of obsolescent ones running along beside them. The outer
margin of the chela is ridged, on account of a marked longitudinal depression
which runs along the distal part of the palm and the proximal part of the immobile
finger. The fingers are long, heavily pitted, meeting only at their tips, leaving
a wide gape between them. The carpus is armed with an internal median spine,
and a very small internal posterior spine; below it is furnished with the usual
anterior median spine and a minute spinous tubercle between it and the internal
median spine. The lower face of the merus is armed with a row of spines along
its internal margin and an incomplete row on its external margin made up of
about three at the distal end of the joint.
Length of a cf form I., 93 mm.; length of carapace 49 mm.; length of
areola, 17 mm.; width of areola, 4 mm.; length of chela, 67 mm.; width of
chela, 26i mm.; length of dactylus, 45 mm.
Type locality, Indian Creek, Baileysville, Wyoming Co., W. Va.
Two males of the first form, sixteen males of the second form and seven
females were collected by Mr. W. P. Hay at this place on the 16th of August,
1900. They are in the collection of the U. S. National Museum, Nos. 25,020,
28,609, 44,712 (type).
There are also in the National Museum one male of the second form and
two females (No. 28,619) from Crane Creek, W. Va., collected together with
C. h. rohustus on the 8th of August, 1900, and one male of the first form from the
Elk River, Cogar's Mills, W. Va.
This peculiar form of C. hartonii resembles C. b. longulus in the form of the
rostrum, the wide gape of the fingers of the large claw, and in the absence of a
sub-orbital angle. In other respects it is very different from longulus, especially
in the shape of the chela which is strongly depressed, with deep longitudinal
furrows at the base of the immovable finger, both above and below, as in C. h.
rohustus, while in C. h. longulus the fingers are cylindrical and bearded within
at the base. The characteristic gape of the fingers is not present in regenerated
claws, which are furnished with very long straight fingers whose cutting edges are
straight and meet together throughout their whole length.
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This form of C. hartonii differs from the typical race in having the carapace
smoother and less conspicuously punctated, the posterior section proportion-
ately longer, being equal in length to the distance from the cervical groove to
the root of the eye-stalks; this lengthening of the hind section of the carapace
involves a long areola which is also not merely relatively but also absolutely
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narrower than in the typical C. bartonii; the areola is so narrow as to allow barely
room for two closely approximated longitudinal rows of dots; the rostrum is a
little longer than in C. bartonii, with more convergent margins and a longer
acumen; the upper or superior border of the hand and movable finger are more
distinctly tuberculate; the fingers are shorter, stronger, and more heavily ribbed,
and the outer border of the immobile one is more heavily and coarsely punctate.
The posterior internal spine of the carpus is obsolete; the anterior process of the
epistoma is more broadly triangular.
Type specimen, M. C. Z., No. 3,812, W. S. Blatchley, Bloomington, Ind.
d^, form II. Measurements:—Length, 67 mm., length of carapace, 33 mm.,
length of areola, 14 mm., breadth of areola at middle, 1 mm., length of right
chela, 24 mm., length of right dactylus, 16 mm.
Other locahties:—Fall Creek, Indianapohs, Ind. (M. C. Z., No. 3,796), New
Albany, Ind. (M. C. Z., No. 3,618), Irvington, Ind. (U. S. N. M., Nos. 19,738,
22,204), May's Cave, Monroe Co., Ind. (U. S. N. M., No. 19,740).
The peculiarities of this crayfish, which appears to be a common form in the
State of Indiana, were first pointed out in my Notes on North American Cray-
fishes, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1890, 12, p. 622. It has been described and
figured, as C. bartonii, by Mr. W. P. Hay in the Twentieth Ann. Rep. of the
Department of Geology and Natural Resources of Indiana, 1896, p. 437-489.
The features which distinguish it from the typical form of C. bartonii are so pro-
nounced as to render it necessary to mark it as a subspecies of C. bartonii if not
as a valid species. In the great relative length of the posterior section of the
carapace it resembles C. bartonii tenebrosus Hay from the Mammoth Cave of
Kentucky.
According to letters which I received from Dr. John Sloan of New Albany,
Ind., in the year 1883, this crayfish was always found by him in that region to be
a denizen of standing ponds and still water, being replaced by C. sloanii in the
running streams. On the contrary, both Mr. W. P. Hay (I. c, p. 489) and Mr.
A. M. Banta (The Fauna of Mayfield's Cave, Carnegie Inst, of Washington,
Publ. No. 67, Sept. 1907, p. 73-75) aver that it is most commonly found in springs
and small streams of clear running water where it seeks concealment under stones
or in shallow burrows.
Messrs. Hay and Banta have found this form a frequent inhabitant of the
caves of southern Indiana in company with the blind species, C. pellucidus.
Those that dwell in the caves appear to attain a greater size than those in the
surface waters, specimens in the Mitchell Caves, Lawrence Co., often exceeding
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100 mm. in length according to Banta, while those from the outside do not exceed
84 mm. A series of fifty-eight specimens from the outside waters compared
with a series of six specimens from Mayfield's Cave, Monroe Co., by Mr. Banta
revealed the fact that the antennae of the cave specimens avex^aged 11.89 p. c.
longer than the antennae of specimens taken outside the caves in the immediate
vicinity. The cave series was also lighter-coloured than the series from above
ground.
are rather short, strongly curved downward or inward, not conspicuously ribbed,
their prehensile margins armed with rounded teeth, the free edge of the dactylus
furnished with low, ciliated, squamous tubercles.
Antennal scale small, narrow. Anterior process of the epistome broad,
truncate, anterior border concave, with a median tooth. Sexual organs of male
and female similar to those of C. hartonii.
Dimensions of a female specimen:—length, 113 mm. length of cephalotho-
rax, 54 mm., breadth, 29 mm., height of do., 21 mm.; length of areola, 21 mm.,
breadth of areola, 1.5 mm.; length of cheliped, 75 mm.; merus, 21 mm.; length
of chela, 39 mm.; breadth of chela, 19 mm.; length of dactylus, 24 mm.
Bear Creek, a tributary of Green River, Grayson Springs, Grayson Co.,
Ky., Oct. 24, 1874, F. W. Putnam coll. 1 male of the second form, 3 females.
M. C. Z., No. 3,593.
This species is nearly related to C. ortmanni. Its form, like that of C. ort-
manni, denotes a species of f ossorial habits, but not so preeminently addicted to
subterranean life as the species of the C. diogenes group, in which the cephalo-
thorax suffers a greater lateral compression. Comxpared with C. ortmanni,
C. graysoni is more depressed dorsally, more heavily punctated, the areola is
broader (as broad as in the typical form of C. latimanus) the m.etathorax some-
what shorter in proportion to the prothorax, the suborbital angle is much more
salient, the anterior process of the epistoma is deeply emarginate in front, with a
prominent spine at the bottom of the emargination, the internal carpal spine is
acute even in old and large examples, and the tubercles of the inner (superior)
margin of the hand are stronger and biserially disposed.
The specimens which form the types of C. graysoni were referred to C. har-
tonii in my Revision of the Astacidae, p. 61, 159,169. The peculiarities of the
chelipeds, however, show that they belong to a distinct species, allied to C.
ortmanni and C. latimanus and forming together with these species a group con-
necting C. hartonii and its near allies with C. diogenes and the nearly related pre-
eminently burrowing forms.
however, in the Museum of Comparative Zoology since the early days of the
Museum. This specimen. No. 243, was referred to C. hartonii by Dr. Hagen in
his Monograph and entered into his computation of the variability of the width
of the areola of that species, on p. 78. In my subsequent Revision of the Asta-
cidae, in 1885, p. 64, I referred to this individual as possibly a pecuHar species
related to C. latimanus.
In the shape of the body and the narrow areola C. ortmanni bears a close
resemblance to C. latimanus striatus, but in the outline of the rostrum and the
sculpture of the claws it betrays a closer resemblance to C. hartonii. It is without
'doubt an immediate offshoot of the latter, modified by fossorial habits; the nar-
row areola, broad, conical claws, small antennal scale, long, narrow and quad-
rangular epistome, all denote this. It forms a passage from C. hartonii to C.
latimanus on the one hand and on the other to the more eminently fossorial forms,
C. carolinus, C. diogenes, etc.
Mr. C. F. Baker has sent me a fine lot of C. latimanus from Auburn, Ala.,
among them specimens that have attained a length of four inches.
This species was described in 1846 (Arch. Naturgesch., 12, 1, p. 96). Erich-
son's type, a male of the first form, is preserved in the Berlin Museum. It was
collected by Dr. Cabanis, who assured Dr. Hagen that all the crayfishes that he
collected in the United States came from a rivulet in a plantation called Tiger
Hall, near Greenville, S. C.^ In 1902 Mr. W. P . Hay procured from Dr. Johann
Thiele of Berlin a photograph of the type specimen together with drawings of
the right claw and first and second abdominal appendages. By means of this
photograph and the drawings Mr. Hay identified the species with the crayfish
which I described in 1884, from Cranberry Summit (now Terra Alta), Preston
Co., W. Va., under the anme of Cambarus duhius (see Hay, Proc. Biol. Soc.
Washington, 15, March 5, 1902, p. 38.
By the courtesy of Mr. Hay I have before me Dr. Thiele's photograph and
drawings of Erichson's type, and find that, although it nearly resembles C. duhius,
yet it presents some different characters. The carpus is armed on its inner
margin with two prominent, acute spines; of these the larger, anterior one is
the so-called internal median carpal spine; on the left cheliped the photograph
reveals a tubercle just behind, and at a lower level than, the median spine.
In C. duhius there is but one carpal spine, the internal median. Furthermore,
the outer margin of the hand of C. carolinus, as shown in Dr. Thiele's drawing,
is rounded off and lacks the subserrate ridge characteristic of C. duhius; in this
regard the hand of C. carolinus appears to be like that of C. monongalensis
Ortm.
No. 14,314, U. S. N. M., male, form I., "among the Cherokees, James
Mooney," agrees closely with the pictures of Erichson's type, and may be con-
sidered a typical C. carolinus. In a notice of this specimen as C. duhius in 1890
(Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 12, p. 624), I erred in ascribing it to the Indian Territory.
I am advised by Mr. Mooney that it was in reality obtained in Swain Co. or
in Jackson Co., N. C , among the Eastern Cherokees,— a remnant of the Nation
which eluded deportation in 1838 and still clings to the old home in western North
^ Mr. W. P . H a y (Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 15, p. 38, 1902) has unfortunately given this local-
ity as tvestern North Carolina, and has been followed in this error by Mr. J. A. Harris (Kansas Univ.
Sci. Bull., 1903, 2, p. 81, 142, 154).
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CRAYFISHES. 397
Carolina.^ It thus appears that Mr. Mooney's crayfish came from a region not
far remote from the type locality of C. carolinus.
In this specimen (U. S. N. M., No. 14,314), which displays the normal fea-
tures of C. carolinus, as I believe, the rostrum is narrower than in C. duhius
and less quadrangular in outline; the anterior process of the epistoma is much
broader and more triangular in outline, the sides converging much more between
the base and the truncated anterior angle; the carpus is armed with a prominent,
acute, internal median spine, immediately behind which and at a little lower level
lies a very small spiny tubercle; posteriorly to this, not far from the inner articu-
lation with the merus, lies another distinct spine, smaller than the internal
median spine; the lower face of the carpus bears one tubercle about half-waj^
between the internal median spine and the outer articulation with the propodus;
the lower face of the merus shows the biserial arrangement of spines as in C.
duhius, as many as five or six spines adorning the external edge of the segment;
the distal segment of the outer branch of the last pair of abdominal appendages
is shorter and broader (less oval in contour) than in C. dubius. The living color
of this specimen, as is shown by a MS. note accompanying the specimen, was
red, the color of C. dubius also.
A large number of specimens in the U. S. National Museum collected at
various places in the southwestern part of West Virginia (Nos. 28,591-28,596,
28,598-28,600, Horsepen Creek, War Creek, Baileysville, Lashmeet, Barranche
Creek), agreeing in most respects with the typical C. duhius from northern West
Virginia and Pennsylvania tend to develop the accessory carpal spines and
tubercles of C. carolinus.
Three specimens (male, form I.) in the U. S. National Museum, No.
22,386, from a tributary of Stone River twenty miles from Columbia in cen-
tral Tennessee are interesting. They agree in most respects with C. c. duhius,
but the rostrum is a little narrower, with more convergent margins, the rostral
acumen is less abrupt, and the outer border of the hand is rounded off with-
out much indication of serrature. In these regards the specimens agree with
the typical carolinus; the carpus, however, is very smooth, bearing no spines
except the internal median, as in 0. c. dubius. The outer inferior row of spines
on the merus is present, though slightly developed. The branchio-cardiac
Hnes are in closer contact than in any other specimens of this species that I
have seen, reducing the areola to a narrow line.
• See Myths of the Cherokee, by James Mooney, Nineteenth Ann. Rept. Bureau Amer. Ethnol.
1897-98, 1900, p. 308.
398 CRAYFISHES.
The type specimen of this species, a female, U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 17,277,
is the only one known. It was found by Mr. G. A. Coleman, of the U. S. Bio-
logical Survey, in April, 1892, in a skiff at Bay St. Louis, Miss. Mr. Hay sur-
mises that it belongs in the neighbourhood of C cubensis; 1 should incline rather,
on account of the structure of the annulus ventralis and the shape of the body,
to place it in C. bartonii group.
LIST OF THE DESCRIBED SPECIES OF CRAYFISHES (PARAS-
TACIDAE AND AST ACID AE).
PARASTACIDAE.
AsTACOPSis Huxley.
AsTACOPSis Huxle3^ Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1878, p. 764.
1. AsTACOPSis FEANKLINII.
Astacus franklinii Gray, Eyre's Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into
Central Australia, 1845, 1, p. 409.
Type locality:—• Tasmania.
2. AsTACOPSis NOBILIS.
Astacoides nohilis Dana, Crustacea U. S. Expl. Exped., 1852, 1, p. 526.
Tyjje locality:— New South Wales?
3. AsTACOPSis SPINIFEEA.
Cancer serratus Shaw, Zoology of New Holland, 1794, pi. 8, (nee Cancer
serratus Forskal, 1775).
fAstacus australasiensis Milne Edwards, Hist. Nat. Crustaces, 1837, 2,
p. 332. Type locality:— Sydney, Australia. Two cotypes, Paris Mus.
f Astacus australiensis Erichson, Arch. Naturgesch., 1846, 12, 1, p. 94 {nom.
emend.).
Astacoides spinifer Heller, Reise der Novara, Zool. Th., 2, pt. 3, Crust.,
1865, p. 102.
Astacus armatus Martens, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., 1866, ser. 3, 17, p. 359.
Type locality:— Murray River, Australia. Type, Berlin Mus.
fAstacopsis paramattensis Bate, Rept. Challenger, 24, Crust. Macrura, 1888,
p. 202. Type locality:— Paramatta River, Sydney, Australia. Type, Brit.
Mus., 1 9 .
fAstacopsis sydneyensis Bate, Rept. Challenger, 24, Crust. Macrura, 1888,
p. 204. Type locality:— Sydney, Australia. Type, Brit. Mus., 1 9 .
Type locality:— Australia.
Incertae Sedis.
1. AsTACOPSis ? TASMANICUS.
Astacus tasmanicus Erichson, Arch. Naturgesch., 1846, 12, 1, p. 94.
Type locality:— Tasmania. Type, Berlin Mus., No. 1,579, 9 .
CRAYPISHES. 403
CHERAPS Erichson.
CiiEEAPS Erichson, Arch. Naturgesch., 1846, 12, 1, p . 101.
1. CHERAPS PREISSII.
Astacus (Cheraps) preissii Erichson, Arch. Naturgesch., 1846, 12, 1, p. 101.
fAstacoldes plehejus Hess, Arch. Naturgesch., 1865, 31, 1, p. 164. Type local-
ity:— Sydney, Australia. Type, Gottingen Mus.
Type locality:— Southwestern Australia.
2. CHERAPS BICARINATUS.
Astacus hicarinatus Gray, Eyre's Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into
Central Australia, 1845, 1, p. 410.
Type locality:— Port Essington, North Australia.
3. CHERAPS QUADRICARINATUS.
Astacus quadricarinatus Martens, Monatsber. Akad. Wissensch. Berlin,
1868, p. 617.
Type locality:— Cape York, Australia. Type, Berlin Mus., No. 2972.
4. CHERAPS QUINQUECARINATUS.
Astacus quinquecarinatus Gray, Eyre's Journals of Expeditions of Discovery
into Central Australia, 1845, 1, p. 410.
Type locality:— Western Australia, near Swan River.
ENGAEUS Erichson.
ENOAEUS Erichson, Arch. Naturgesch., 1846, 12, 1, p. 102.
1. ENGAEUS FOSSOR.
Astacus (Engaeus) fossor Erichson, Arch. Naturgesch., 1846, 12, 1, p. 102.
Type locality:— Tasmania. Types, Berlin Mus., Nos. 1123, 1124.
2. ENGAEUS CUNICULARIUS.
Astacus (Engaeus) cunicularius Erichson, Arch. Naturgesch., 1846, 12, 1,
p. 102.
Engaeus cunicularis Haswell, Cat. Australian Stalk- and Sessile-eyed Crus-
tacea, 1882, p. 179. (Err. typography)
Type locality:—Tasmania. Type, Berlin Mus., No. 1122.
PARANEPHROPS White.
PAKANEPHROPS White, Gray's Zool. Miscell., June, 1842, p. 79.
L. PARANEPHROPS PLANIPRONS.
Paranephrops planifrons White, Gray's Zool. Miscell., June, 1842, p. 79.
404 CRAYFISHES.
2. PAEANEPHEOPS ZEALANDICUS.
Astacus zealandicus White, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1847, part 15, p. 123.
Paranephrops neo-zelanicus Chilton (in part). Trans, and Proc. New Zealand
Inst., 1888, 21, p. 249 (nom. e7nend.).
Type locality: — New Zealand. Types, Brit. Mus.
3. PAEANEPHEOPS SETOSUS.
Paranephrops setosus Hutton (in part), Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Nov. 1873,
ser. 4, 12, p. 402.
Paranephrops horridus ''S[emper?] MS.," Miers, Cat. Stalk and Sessile-
eyed Crust. New Zealand, 1876, p. 73. (nom. nudum). Brit. Mus.
fAstacoides tridentatus Wood-Mason, Proc. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 1876, p. 4.
Type locality: — New Zealand.
Type locality: — River Avon, near Christchurch, South Island, New Zea-
land.
AsTAcoNEPHEOPS Nobili.
AsTACONEPHEOPS Nobili, Annali del Mus. Civ. Storia Nat. Geneva, 1899, 40, p . 244.
1. A s T A C O N E P H E O P S ALBEETISII.
Astaconephrops albertisii Nobili, Annali del Mus. Civ. Storia Nat. Genova,
1899, 40, p. 244.
Type locality: — Katau, southern New Guinea. Type, Genova Mus., 1 9 .
AsTAcoiDES Guerin.
1. ASTACOIDES MADAGASCAEIENSIS.
Astacus caldwelli Bate, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1865, p. 469. Type
locality:— N e a r Antananarivo, Madagascar.
Type locality: — Madagascar.
PAEASTACUS Huxley.
1. PAEASTACUS PILIMANUS.
2. PAEASTACUS BEASILIENSIS.
Parastacus defossus Faxon, Proc. U. S. N a t . Mus., Feb. 17, 1898, 20, p. 686.
Type locality: — Montevideo, Uruguay. Types, U. S. N . M„, No. 19,647;
paratype, M . C. Z., No. 4,776.
4. PAEASTACUS SAFFOEDI.
Parastacus saffordi Faxon, Proc. U. S. N a t . Mus., Feb. 17, 1898, 20, p . 683.
Type locality: — Montevideo, Uruguay. Types, U. S. N . M., No. 12,581;
paratype, M . C. Z., No. 4,775.
5. PAEASTACUS VAEICOSUS.
Parastacus varicosus Faxon, Proc. U. S. N a t . Mus., Feb. 17, 1898, 20, p . 685.
Type locality: — Colima, Mexico (by error?). Type, U. S. N . M., No. 4,133.
6. PAEASTACUS CHILENSIS.
8. PARASTACUS SPINIFRONS.
Astacus spinifrons Philippi, Anales Universidad Chile, 1882, 61. •
Type locality: — Chile.
9. PARASTACUS NICOLETI.
Astacus chilensis Nicolet (nee M. Edw.), Gay's Hist. Chile, ZooL, 1849, 3,
p. 211. Type locality: — Chile.
Astacus nicoleti Philippi, Anales Universidad Chile, 1882, 61.
Type locality: — Chile.
10. PARASTACUS HASSLERI.
Parastacus hassleri Faxon, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Feb. 17, 1898, 20, p. 687.
Type locality: — Talcahuano, Chile. Types, M. C. Z., No. 3,401; paratypes,
U. S. N. M., No. 19,689.
ASTACUS Fabricius.
ASTACUS Fabricius, Syst. Entomol., 1775, p. 413.
1. ASTACUS COLCHICUS.
Astacus colchicus Kessler, Bull. Soc. Imp. Moscou, 1876, 50, p. 2.
Type locality: — Upper Rion River and tributaries, Transcaucasia.
2. ASTACUS PACHYPUS.
Astacus pachypus Rathke, Mem. Acad. Imp. St. Petersbourg, 1836, 3, p. 365.
Astacus caspius Eichwald, Bull. Soc. Imp. Moscou, 1838, p. 149. Type
locality: — Caspian Sea, near Baku.
Type locality: —- Neighborhood of Nikolaiev, Boug River, Russia.
3. ASTACUS LEPTODACTYLUS.
Astacus leptodactylus Eschscholtz, Mem. Soc. Imp. Moscou, 1823, 6, p. 109.
Astacus leptodactylus salinus Nordmann, Observations sur la Faune Pontique,
in Demidoff's Voyage dans la Russie Meridionale et la Crimee, Atlas, Crustacea,
1842, Tab. 1. Type locality: — Black Sea.
Type locality: — Government of Taurida, Russia.
CRAYFISHES. 407
4. ASTACUS K E S S L E E I .
Astacus kessleri Schimkewitsch, Bull. Soc. I m p . Amis Hist. N a t . Moscou,
1886, 50 (Proc. Zool. Sect., 1, p t . 1, p. 20).
Type locality: — Near the town of Turkestan, Government of Syr-Darya,
Asiatic Russia.
5. ASTACUS ASTACUS.
Cancer astacus Linne, Syst. Nat., E d . 10, 1758, 1, p . 631.
Astacus fiuviatilis Fabr., Syst. EntomoL, 1775, p. 413. Type locality: —
Europe.
Cancer nohilis Schrank, F a u n a Boica, 1803, 3, 1 Abth., p . 246. Type
locality: — Bavaria.
Astacus fiuviatilis communis Gerstfeldt, M^m. Acad. I m p . St. Petersbourg,
1859, 9, p . 554. Type locality: — Europe.
6. ASTACUS PALLIPES.
Astacus pallipes Lereboullet, M6m. Soc. Sci. N a t . Strasbourg, 1858, 5, p. 7.
Astacus fontinalis Carbonnier, L'Ecrevisse, 1869, p. 8. Type locality: —
France.
Type locality: — I n canals and ditches, Strasbourg, Alsace.
9. ASTACUS NIGRESCENS.
Astacus nigrescens Stimpson, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., Feb., 1857, 6,
p. 87.
Type locality: — Neighborhood of San Francisco, Cal. Types probably
destroyed in the Chicago fire in 1871.
CAMBAROIDES Faxon.
CAMBAROIDES Faxon, Proc. Amer. Acad., 1884, 20, p. 150.
1. CAMBAROIDES JAPONICUS.
Astacus japonicus De Haan, Crustacea of Siebold's Fauna Japonica, 1842,
p. 164.
Type locality: — Japan.
2. CAMBAROIDES SIMILIS.
Astacus (Cambaroides) similis Koelbel, Anz. Akad. Wissensch. Wien, math.-
nat. Classe, 1892, 29, p. 176; Sitzungsber., 1892, 101, pt. 1, p. 650.
Type locality: — Province of Kj6ng-Kur-do, Korea.
3. CAMBAROIDES DAUURICUS.
Astacus dauuricus Pallas, Spicilegia Zoologica, 1772, Fasc. 9, p. 81.
Astacus leptorrhinus Fischer, Bull. Soc. Imp. Moscou, 1836, 9, p. 467.
Type locality: — Dauria. Types, St. Petersburg Mus.^
4. CAMBAROIDES SCHRENCKII.
Astacus schrenckii Kessler, Bull. Soc. Imp. Moscou, 1874, 48, p. 361.
Type locality: — Lower Amur River Basin.
CAMBARUS Erichson.
CAMBAEUS Erichson, Arch. Naturgesch., 1846, 12, 1, p. 88.
§ I. Third segment of the third pair of legs of the male furnished with
hooks. First pair of abdominal appendages of the male stout, inner and outer
parts closely appressed, laterally compressed, with a horny (in the first form)
spine at the tip; anterior margin with a prominent shoulder near the distal end.
(Subgenus PROCAMBARUS of Ortmann.)
1. CAMBAEUS DIGUETI.
Cambarus digueti Bouvier, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 1897, 3, p. 225.
Camharus carinatus Faxon, Proc. U. S. N. M., Feb. 17, 1898, 20, p. 648.
Type locality: — Guadalajara, Mexico. Type, U. S. N. M., No. 17,699,1 d' f. I;
paratypes, U. S. N. M., No. 16,085 (Ameca, State of Jalisco, Mex.), 17,707
(Hacienda de Villachuato, State of Miehoacan, Mex.); M. C. Z., No. 4,338
(Ameca, Mex.).
Type locality: — Affluents of River Santiago, State of Jalisco, Mexico. Co-
types, Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris; U. S. N. M., No. 30,579; Carnegie Mus. Pittsburgh.
2. CAMBARUS WILLIAMSONI.
Cambarus {Procambarus) williamsoni Ortmann, Annals Carnegie Mus.,
1905, 3, p. 439.
Type locality: — Los Amates, Province of Izabal, Guatemala. Types,
Carnegie Mus. Pittsburgh.
3. CAMBARUS PILOSIMANUS.
Cambarus {Procambarus) pilosimanus Ortmann, Proc. Washington Acad.
Sci., May 3, 1906, 8, p. 6.
Type locality: — Coche, near Coban, Guatemala. Types, Mus. Hist. Nat.
Paris; paratypes, Carnegie Mus. Pittsburgh (1 c?" f. I., 1 9 ) .
4. CAMBARUS MEXICANUS.
Astacus {Cambarus) mexicanus Erichson, Arch. Naturgesch., 1846, 12, 1,
p. 99.
Cambarus aztecus Saussure, Rev. et Mag. Zool., 1857, ser. 2, 9, p. 503. Type
locality: — Tomatlan [State of Vera Cruz?] Mexico. Coiypes, Geneva Mus.;
U. S. N. M., No. 20,682 (1 d^ ex Geneva Mus.).
Cambarus ruthveni Pearse, 13th Rept. Mich. Acad. Sci., 1911, p. 110. Type
locality: — Cuatotolapam, Canton of Acayucan, State of Vera Cruz, Mexico.
Types, Mus. Univ. Michigan, No. 41,704, 41,705, 1 cT, 1 9.
Type locality: — Mexico. Type seemingly lost from the Berlin Mus.
rii^
CRAYFISHES. 411
5. CAMBARUS CUBENSIS.
Astacus (Cambarus) cubensis Erichson, Arch. Naturgesch., 1846, 12, 1,
p, 100.
6. CAMBARUS ATKINSONI.
Cambarus (Procambarus) atkinsoni Ortmann, Annals Carnegie Mus., M a y 5,
1913, 8, p . 414.
Type locality: — Tributaries of Rio de los Indios, Los Indios, Isle of Pines.
Types, Carnegie M u s . Pittsburgh, No. 74,924.
§ II. Third segment of third pair of legs of the male provided with hooks.
First pair of abdominal legs of the male truncate, outer part closely applied to
the inner and armed at the tip with from one to three horny, recurved teeth;
inner part ending in a sharp spine generally directed outward. (Subgenus
CAMBARUS of Ortmann, in part.)
7. CAMBARUS BOUVIERI.
8. C A M B A R U S SIMULANS.
Cambarus simulans Faxon, Proc. Amer. Acad., 1884, 20, p. 112.
Cambarus gallinus Cockerell and Porter, Proc. Acad. N a t . Sci. Philad., 1900,
412 CRAYFISHES.
9. CAMBAEUS GEACILIS.
Cambarus gracilis Bundy, Bull. Illinois State Lab. Nat. Hist., Dec. 1876, 1,
p. 5.
Type locality: — Normal, McLean Co., 111., and Racine, Racine Co., Wis-
consin. Cotypes, 111. State Lab. Nat. Hist., Urbana, III.; M. C. Z., No. 3,794
(Normal, 111.), No. 3,454 (Racine, Wis.).
I
22. CAMBAEUS TEOGLODYTES.
Astacus troglodytes LeConte, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1855, 7, p. 400.
Astacus fossarum LeConte, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1855, 7, pi. 401.
Type locality: — Ditches, Lower Georgia. Cotypes,M. C. Z., No. 3377; Acad.
Nat. Sci. Philad.
Type locality: — Rice-fields, Georgia. Cotypes, M. C. Z., No. 3,375 (cT,
I
f. L); Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. (cf f. L).
Cambarus montezumae, var. areolata Faxon, Mem. M . C. Z., 1885, 10, p. 123.
Type locality: — Near Parras, Cohahuila, Mexico. Type, M . C. Z., No.
3,650.
Cambarus indianensis Hay, 20th Ann. Rept. Depart. Geol. & N a t . Resources
Indiana, 1896, p. 494.
Type locality: — P a t o k a River at Patoka, Gibson Co., Ind. Types, U. S.
N . M., No. 14,624, 2 cT f. I., 2 9 ; paratypes, M . C. Z., No. 3,859, 2 cT f. I., 2 9 .
36. CAMBARUS A F F I N I S .
fCambarus limosus Rafinesque, Amer. Monthly Mag. & Crit. Rev., Nov.
1817, 2, p . 42. Type locality: — I n the m u d d y banks of the Delaware River,
near Philadelphia, Pa. (Indeterminable from the description; types not extant.)
Cambarus affinis Say, Journ. Acad. N a t . Sci. Philad., 1817, 1, p. 168.
Cambarus pealei Girard, Proc. Acad. N a t . Sci. Philad., 1852, 6, p. 87. Type
locality: — Potomac River at Washington, D . C. Type, U. S. N . M., No. 2,081
(2 c f , 2 9).
Type locality: — Delaware River.
Type locality: — Oberlin, Lorain Co., Ohio. Types, M. C. Z., No. 3,692;
paratypes, M. C. Z., No. 3,587 (Smoky Creek, Carter Co., Ky.).
48. CAMBARUS M E E K I .
Cambarus meeki Faxon, Proc. U. S. N a t . Mus., Feb. 17, 1898, 20, p. 657.
Type locality: — Walnut Fork of Big Piney Creek, Swain, Newton Co.,
Ark. Types, M . C. Z., No. 4,363; paratypes, U. S. N . M., No. 19,680; M u s .
Zool. Torino.
420 CRAYFISHES.
Cambarus immunis spinirostris Faxon, Proc. Amer. Acad., 1884, 20, p. 146.
Type locality: — Creek running into the east side of Redfoot Lake, near
Idlewild Hotel, Obion Co., Tennessee. Cotypes, U. S. N . M., No. 4,655; M . C. Z.,
No. 3,562.
Type locality: — Creek running into the east side of Redfoot Lake, near
Idlewild Hotel, Obion Co., Tenn. Cotypes, U. S. N . M., No. 4,872; M . C. Z.,
N o . 3,564.
57. CAMBARUS D I F F I C I L I S .
Cambarus difficilis Faxon, Proc. U. S. N a t . Mus., Feb. 17, 1898, 20, p . 656.
Type locality: — Creek tributary to a southern branch of the Canadian
River, McAlester, Pittsburg Co., Oklahoma. Types, M . C. Z., No. 4,359;
paratypes, U. S. N . M., No. 19,687; Mus. Zool. Torino.
422 CRAYFISHES.
§ VII. Third segment of third pair of legs of male hooked. First pair of
abdominal appendages of male short and thick, terminating in two large recurved
tooth4ike processes, the larger formed by the outer part of the appendage, the
smaller by the inner. (Subgen. BAETONIUS of Ortmann.)
Orconectes hamulatus Cope and Packard, Amer. Nat., Nov. 1881, 15, p. 881.
Type locality: — Nickajack Cave, Tennessee. Cotypes, M . C. Z., No. 3,678
(Icf f.IL, 1 9).
63. CAMBAEUS E X T E A N E U S .
Cambarus extraneus Hagen, Mem. M . C. Z., 1870, 2, p. 73.
Type locality: — Tennessee River, Tenn., near the boundary of Georgia.
Types, M . C. Z., No. 175; paratype, U. S. N . M., No. 4,957.
Cambarus bartonii cavatus Hay, Proc. IT. S. N a t . Mus., Sept. 23, 1902, 25,
p. 435.
Type locality: — Powell River at Tazewell, Claiborne Co., Tennessee.
Types, U . S. N . M., No. 25,017.
67. C A M B A E U S LATIMANUS.
Astacus latimanus LeConte, Proc. Acad. N a t . Sci. Philad., 1855, 7, p. 402.
Type locality: — Athens, Clarke Co., Georgia. Cotypes, M . C. Z., No.
3,378 (1 c?" f. I ) ; Acad. N a t . Sci. Philad. (1 9 ) ; paratypes, M . C. Z., No. 236.
69. C A M B A E U S OETMANNI.
Cambarus ortmanni Williamson, 31st Ann. Rept. Dept. Geol. Indiana, 1907,
p . 754.
Type locality: — Six-Mile Creek and Craven Ditch, tributary to Wabash
River, above Bluffton, Wells Co., Indiana. Types, Carnegie Mus., Pittsburgh;
paratypes. Coll. W. P. H a y ; M . C. Z., N o . 7,587 (1 9 ) .
70. C A M B A E U S CAEOLINUS.
Astacus {Cambarus) carolinus Erichson, Arch. Naturgesch., 1846, 12, p. 96.
Type locality: — F a r m called ''Tiger H a l l , " near Greenville, Greenville Co.,
S. C. Type, Berlin Mus. (1 cf).
70a. C A M B A E U S CAEOLINUS DUBIUS.
71. C A M B A R U S DIOGENES.
Camharus diogenes Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1852, 6, p. 88.
fCambarus nehrascensis Girard, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1852, 6, p. 91.
Type locality: — Fort Pierre, Nebraska [now in Stanley Co., South Dakota].
Camharus ohesus Hagen, Mem. M. C. Z., 1870, 2, p. 81. Type locality: —
Lawn Ridge, Illinois. Types, M. C. Z., No. 195; paratypes, M. C. Z., No. 165
(Belleville, Saint Clair Co., 111.), No. 336 (Evanston, Cook Co., Ill), No. 229
(Arkansas), No. 3,363 (Petersburg, Dinwiddle Co., Va.); Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris
(Lawn Ridge, 111., Belleville, 111.); St. Petersburg Mus. (Belleville, III.).
Type ZocaZ%; — Near Washington, D. C. Paratype (?), Acad. Nat. Sci.
Philad.
1. CAMBARUS MANICULATUS.
Astacus maniculatus LeConte, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1855, 7, p. 401.
Type locality: — In ditches. Lower Georgia.
2. CAMBARUS STYGIUS.
Cambarus stygius Bundy, Bull. Illinois State Lab. Nat. Hist., 1876, 1, p. 3.
Type locality: — Lake Michigan at Racine, Racine Co., Wisconsin (washed
up during a violent storm).
3. CAMBARUS TYPHLOBIUS.
Cambarus typhlobius Joseph, 57th Jahresber. Schlesischen Gesellsch. vaterl.
Cult., 1879, 1880, p. 202.
Cambarus coecus Joseph, Berl. Entomol. Zeitschr., Dec. 1881, 25, p. 237.
Cambarus stygius Joseph, Berl. Entomol. Zeitschr., April, 1882, 26, p. 12
(nee Bundy, 1876).
Type locality: — Recca River, Grotto of St. Kanzian at Metaun, near
Divazza, Carniola (doubtless an error).
EXPLANATION OF PLATES.
NOTE.— Plates 1-3 are after colour-drawings of living specimens, by E. N. Fischer. Plates 4-8 are
from India-ink drawings by E. N. Fischer. Plates 9-13 are from photographs by George Nelson.
PLATE 1.
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PLATE 1.
Fig. 1.— Cambarus hagenianus Faxon. 9. Muldon, Miss. M. C. Z., No. 7,425. X1
Fig. 2.— Cambarus hagenianus Faxon. cf. Muldon, Miss. M.C.Z., No. 7,425. X1
PLA^'E 2.
P L A T E 2.
Fig. 1.— Camharus immunis spinirostns Faxon. Young 9 Pontoosuc Lake, Lanesboro, Mass., Aug.
12,1911. M . C . Z . , No. 7,364. X 3.
Fig. 2.— Cambarus immunis spinirostris Faxon, cf, form I. Pontoosuo Lake, Lanesboro, Mass., Aug.
12, 1911. M. C. Z., No. 7,363. X 1.
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CRAYFISHES, PLATE 2.
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PLATE 3.
PLATE 3.
Cambarus bartonii robustus (Girard). Bog River, St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., July, 1912. M. C. Z.. No.
7,440. X H.
M LM M IJ S. C o M p. Z O O L CRAYFISHES. PLATt3.
PLATE 4.
P L A T E 4.
Fig. 1.— Parastacus araucanius Faxon, d^. Corral, Chile, Dec. 18, 1908. Type. M, C. Z., No.
7,355.
Fig. 2.— Epistoma of the same.
Fig. 3.— Antennal scale from the right antenna, upper face.
AIus. Conip. Zool Crayfishes, P l a t e ^.
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PARASTACUS ARAUCANIUS FAXON
PLATE 5.
P L A T E 5.
Fig. 1.— Cambarusviae-mHdis Faxon, c f , f o r m I . St. Francis R., Greenway, Ark., Aug., 1894. Type.
M. C. Z., No. 7,336.
Fig. 2.— Epistoma of the same.
Fig. 3.— Antennal scale of the same.
Fig. 4.— Gonopod of the same, inner side.
Fig. 4a.— Gonopod of the same, outer side.
Fig. 5.— Right cheliped of the same.
Fig. 6.— Annulus ventralis of the female Camharus viae-viridis.
Mem. .Miis. Conip. Zool. Crayfishes, Plate
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Fig. 1.— Cambarus immunis spinirostris Faxon. Pontoosuc Lake, Lanesboro, Mass., Aug. 12, 1911.
M. C. Z., No, 7,363. Gonopod of the c?, form I. la, outside, 16, front, Ic, inside.
Fig. 2.— Gonopod of the cf, form I I . of the same, 2a, outside, 26, front, 2c, inside.
Fig. 3 . — Epistoma of the same.
Fig. 4.— Antennal scale of the same.
Fig. 5.—• Annulus ventralis of the 9 of the same. :«
Fig. 6.— Chela of the d', form I. of the same.
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PLATE 7.
P L A T E 7.
Fig. 1.— Cambarus hagenianus Faxon. Muldon, Miss. Gonopod of cT, form I. la, outer side, 15,
inner side, Ic, front.
Fig. 2.— Cambarus pellucidus (TelUcampf). Mammoth Cave, Ky. Gonopod of d^, form I. 2a, outer
side, 2b, inner side, 2c, front.
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Fig. 3.— Cambarus validusF&xon. Huntsville, Ala. Type. M. C. Z., No.301. Gonopod (cT form I.).
3a, outer side, 3b, inner side, 3c, front.
Fig. 4.— Cambarus validus Faxon. Type. Antennal scale.
Fig. 5.— Astacus nigrescens fortis Faxon, c?. Fall R., Fall City Mills, Cal. Type. U. S. N. M.
Antennal scale.
Fig. 6.— Astacus gambeliconnectensFsiyior).. cT. Snake R., Upper Salmon Falls, Idaho. Type. U. S,
N. M., No. 23,096. Antennal scale.
Fig. 7.— Cambarus hagenianus Faxon. 9 • Muldon, Miss. Annulus ventralis.
Fig. 8.— Cambarus validus Faxon, cf. Type. Epistoma.
Fig. 9.— Astacus nigrescens Joriis FsixoTo.. d^. Type. Epistoma.
Fig. 10.— Astacus gambelii connectens Faxon, cf. Type. Epistoma.
Mem. Mas. Conip. Zool
Cravfishes, Plate 7,
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PLATE 8.
P L A T E 8.
Fig. 1.- — Aslacus astacus (Linne). c?. Leipzig, Germany. M. C. Z., No. 3403.
Fig. la. — Gonopod of the same.
Fig. lb. — Chela of the same.
Fig. Ic. — Antennal scale of the same.
Fig. Id. — Anterior process of the epistoma of the same.
Fig. le. — Profile of anterior end of rostrum of the same.
Fig. !/•- — Pleura of the second and third abdominal segments of the same.
Fig. 2 . - — Aslacus pallipes iialicus Faxon, d^. SarnoR., Pompeii, Italy, June 10, 1900. Type. U.S.
N. M., No. 28,638.
Fig. 2a. — Gonopod of the same.
Fig. 2b. — Chela of the same.
Fig. 2c — Antennal scale of the same.
Fig. 2d. — Anterior process of the epistoma of the same.
Fig. 2e — Profile of anterior end of rostrum of the same.
Fig. 2/. — Pleura of the second and third abdominal segments of the same.
Fig. 3. — Astacus pallipes LerehouWet. d. Saone R., Lyons, France. M. C. Z., No. 3,372.
Fig. 3a. — Gonopod of the same.
Fig. 36 — Chela of the same.
Fig. 3c. — Antennal scale of the same.
Fig. 3d. — Anterior process of the epistoma of the same.
Fig. 3e. — Profile of anterior end of rostrum of the same.
Fig. 3/. — Pleura of the second and third abdominal segments of the same.
Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Crayfishes, Plate S.
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PLATE 9.
P L A T E 9.
P L A T E 10.
Fig. 1.— Astacus gamhelii connedens Faxon, c?. Type. Snake R., Upper Salmon Falls, Idaho, Oct.
3,1894. U . S . N . M . , No. 23,096. Enlarged.
Fig. 2.— Astacus gamhelii with most of the characters of A. g. connedens. c?. Mouth of St. Joe R.,
Coeur d'Alene Lake, Idaho. U. S. N. M. X L
Mem. Mus. Co nip. Zool. Crayfishes, Plate lo.
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FIG. 1. ASTACUS GAMBELII CONNECTENS FAXON FIG. 2. ASTACUS GAMBELII CONNECTENS FAXON
PLATE 11.
P L A T E 11.
Fig. 1.— Asiacus klamathensis Stirmpson. c^. Portland, Or. U. S.N. M., slightly enlarged. Showini;
the chelipeds of normal shape.
Fig. 2.— Asiacus klamaihensis Stimpson. c^. Portland, Or. U. S. N. M., slightly reduced. Showing
the abnormal, atavistic form of the regenerated claw of the left side.
Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Crayfishes, Plale i i .
Fig.— Astacus Mamathensis Siimpson. d*. Portland, Or. U. S. N . M. X I . Both of the chelipeds
are second growths, the left the older.
Fig. 2.— Astacus klamathensis Stimpson. d. Portland, Or. U. S. N. M. Slightly reduced. Showing
both claws regenerated, of full size, and nearly symmetrical; yet very different in shape from
the normal claw as seen in Plate 11, Fig. 1.
Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Crayfishes, Plate i2.
Fig. 1.— Cambarus validus Faxon, cf, form I. Type. Huntsville, Ala. M. C Z., No. 301. X If.
Fig. 2.— Cambarus bartonii veteranus Faxon, cf, form I. Type. Indian Creek, Baileysville, W. Va.
Aug, 16, 1900. U. S. N. M., No. 25,020. Reduced.
Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. Crayfishes, Plate 13.