Orconectes australis

Orconectes australis, the southern cave crayfish,^[1][2] is a species of crayfish in the Cambaridae family found in Alabama and Tennessee.^[3] Ages of 176 years have been claimed for O. australis, though this was reduced to ≤22 years in a 2012 study.^[4]

Orconectes australis
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Secure  (NatureServe)[2]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Family:	Cambaridae
Genus:	Orconectes
Species:	O. australis
Binomial name
Orconectes australis (Rhoades, 1941)

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