🦋 Family

Parastacidae

8 species · Animals

Animalia › Arthropoda › Malacostraca › Decapoda › Parastacidae

Cherax cainii (smooth marron) is a large endemic Australian crayfish widely introduced for aquaculture.

Common yabby (Cherax destructor) is an Australian freshwater crayfish, eaten as food and kept in aquariums.

Cherax quadricarinatus is a widespread tropical invasive freshwater detritivore crustacean native to Australia and Papua New Guinea.

Cherax depressus, the orange fingered yabby, is a small, rarely seen burrowing yabby found in southeastern Queensland and northern New South Wales.

Euastacus spinifer is an Australian endemic freshwater crayfish species in the family Parastacidae.

Euastacus sulcatus, the Lamington crayfish, is a protected Australian freshwater crayfish with striking color variations.

Paranephrops planifrons is a freshwater crayfish smaller than southern kōura with less hairy front claws.

Paranephrops zealandicus is a larger New Zealand freshwater crayfish with hairier front claws than the northern kōura.

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