Virilastacus

Virilastacus is a genus of freshwater burrowing crayfish species endemic to Chile. It has four described species. The first species was described in 1914, but since 2005, three other species have been added to this genus.^[1][2]

Virilastacus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Family:	Parastacidae
Genus:	Virilastacus Hobbs, 1991
Type species
Virilastacus araucanius
Species
4, See text.

Species

• Virilastacus araucanius Faxon, 1914
• Virilastacus jarai Erich H. Rudolph and Keith A. Crandall, 2012^[3]
• Virilastacus retamali Erich H. Rudolph and Keith A. Crandall, 2007^[4]
• Virilastacus rucapihuelensis Rudolph and Crandall, 2005^[5]