Cambarus tartarus

Cambarus tartarus, the Oklahoma cave crayfish, is a species of crayfish in the family Cambaridae. It is found in North America.[2][3][1][4]

Cambarus tartarus
Conservation status
Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Family:	Cambaridae
Genus:	Cambarus
Species:	C. tartarus
Binomial name
Cambarus tartarus Hobbs & M. R. Cooper, 1972

The IUCN conservation status of Cambarus tartarus is "CR", critically endangered. The species faces an extremely high risk of extinction in the immediate future. The IUCN status was reviewed in 2010.[1]

References

1. "Cambarus tartarus Red List status". IUCN Red List. Retrieved 2020-01-23.
2. "Cambarus tartarus Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2020-01-23.
3. "Cambarus tartarus". GBIF. Retrieved 2020-01-23.
4. "Cambarus tartarus species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2020-01-23.

Further reading

• Hobbs, Horton H. Jr. (1989). "An Illustrated Checklist of the American Crayfishes (Decapoda: Astacidae, Cambaridae, and Parastacidae)" (PDF). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology (480).
• Loughman, Z.; Simon, T. (2011). "Zoogeography, taxonomy, and conservation of West Virginia's Ohio River floodplain crayfishes (Decapoda, Cambaridae)". ZooKeys (74): 1–78. doi:10.3897/zookeys.74.808. PMC 3088040. PMID 21594135.
• Nizinski, Martha S. (2003). "Annotated checklist of decapod crustaceans of Atlantic coastal and continental shelf waters of the United States" (PDF). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 116 (1): 96–157. ISSN 0006-324X.