Cambarus laconensis

Cambarus laconensis, the Lacon Exit cave crayfish,^[1][2] is a small, freshwater crayfish endemic to northern Alabama in the United States. It is an underground species known only from a single cave along the southern border of the Highland Rim in the southern Appalachians.^[1]

Cambarus laconensis
Conservation status
Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Critically Imperiled  (NatureServe)[2]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Family:	Cambaridae
Genus:	Cambarus
Species:	C. laconensis
Binomial name
Cambarus laconensis Buhay & Crandall, 2009[3]