Marbled crayfish
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Quick Facts Scientific classification, Binomial name ...
Marbled crayfish | |
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Adult marmorkrebs | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Family: | Cambaridae |
Genus: | Procambarus |
Species: | P. virginalis |
Binomial name | |
Procambarus virginalis Lyko, 2017[1] | |
Countries where the Marmorkrebs has been found in the wild. It has also been found in Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Japan, Madagascar, Taiwan, and China.[2][3] | |
Synonyms | |
Procambarus fallax forma virginalis Martin, Dorn, Kawai, van der Heiden & Scholtz, 2010 |
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The marbled crayfish or Marmorkrebs (Procambarus virginalis) is a parthenogenetic crayfish that was discovered in the pet trade in Germany in 1995.[4][5] Marbled crayfish are closely related to the "slough crayfish", Procambarus fallax,[6] which is widely distributed across Florida.[7] No natural populations of marbled crayfish are known. Information provided by one of the original pet traders as to where the marbled crayfish originated was deemed "totally confusing and unreliable".[8] The informal name Marmorkrebs is German for "marbled crayfish".