Orconectes

Orconectes is a genus of cave dwelling freshwater crayfish, native to the eastern United States and Canada. Surface dwelling species, formerly categorised here were moved to Faxonius in 2017.

Orconectes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Family:	Cambaridae
Subfamily:	Cambarinae
Genus:	Orconectes Cope, 1872
Type species
Orconectes inermis Cope, 1872
Subgenera
Billecambarus Buannulifictus Crockerinus Faxonius Gremicambarus Hespericambarus Orconectes Procericambarus Rhoadesius Tragulicambarus Trisellescens

Taxonomy

The genus Orconectes was erected in 1872 by Edward Drinker Cope to house Astacus pellucidus (now Orconectes pellucidus) and his new species, Orconectes inermis.[1]

Approximately 85 species are known, divided into 11 subgenera.[2]

Scientific name	Common name	Red List status[3]	Distribution	Authority	Year	Subgenus
O. acares	redspotted stream crayfish		Arkansas	Fitzpatrick	1965	Procericambarus
O. alabamensis	Alabama crayfish		Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee	(Faxon)	1884	Trisellescens
O. australis	southern cave crayfish		Alabama, Tennessee	(Rhoades)	1941	Orconectes
O. barrenensis	Barren River crayfish		Kentucky, Tennessee	Rhoades	1944	Procericambarus
O. barri	Cumberland Plateau cave crayfish		Kentucky, Tennessee	Buhay & Crandall	2008	Orconectes
O. bisectus	Crittenden crayfish		Kentucky	Rhoades	1944	Crockerinus
O. burri	Blood River crayfish		Kentucky, Tennessee	Taylor & Sabaj	1998	Crockerinus
O. carolinensis	North Carolina spiny crayfish		North Carolina	Cooper & Cooper	1995	Procericambarus
O. causeyi	western plains crayfish		Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas	Jester	1967	Gremicambarus
O. chickasawae	Chickasaw crayfish		Mississippi	Cooper & Hobbs	1980	Trisellescens
O. compressus	slender crayfish		Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee	(Faxon)	1884	Gremicambarus
O. cooperi	Flint River crayfish		Alabama, Tennessee	Cooper & Hobbs	1980	Trisellescens
O. cristavarius	spiny stream crayfish		Kentucky, North Carolina, Virginia	Taylor	2000	Procericambarus
O. deanae	conchas crayfish		New Mexico, Oklahoma	Reimer & Jester	1975	Hespericambarus
O. difficilis	painted crayfish		Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas	(Faxon)	1898	Hespericambarus
O. durelli	saddle crayfish		Kentucky, Tennessee	Bouchard & Bouchard	1995	Procericambarus
O. erichsonianus	reticulate crayfish		Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia	(Faxon)	1898	Crockerinus
O. etnieri	Ets crayfish		Mississippi, Tennessee	Bouchard & Bouchard	1976	Trisellescens
O. eupunctus	coldwater crayfish		Arkansas, Missouri	Williams	1952	Crockerinus
O. forceps	surgeon crayfish		Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia	(Faxon)	1884	Procericambarus
O. harrisonii	belted crayfish		Missouri	(Faxon)	1884	Billecambarus
O. hartfieldi	Yazoo crayfish		Mississippi	Fitzpatrick & Suttkus	1992	Hespericambarus
O. hathawayi	Teche pointed crayfish		Louisiana	Penn	1952	Hespericambarus
O. hobbsi	Pontchartrain painted crayfish		Louisiana, Mississippi	Penn	1950	Buannulifictus
O. holti	bimaculate crayfish		Alabama	Cooper & Hobbs	1980	Trisellescens
O. hylas	woodland crayfish		Missouri	(Faxon)	1890	Procericambarus
O. illinoiensis	Shawnee crayfish		Illinois	Brown	1956	Crockerinus
O. incomptus	Tennessee cave crayfish		Tennessee	Hobbs & Barr	1972	Orconectes
O. inermis	ghost crayfish / unarmed crayfish		Indiana, Kentucky	Cope	1872	Orconectes
O. jeffersoni	Louisville crayfish		Kentucky	Rhoades	1944	Crockerinus
O. jonesi	Sucarnoochee crayfish		Alabama, Mississippi	Fitzpatrick	1992	Gremicambarus
O. juvenilis	Kentucky River crayfish		Indiana, Kentucky	(Hagen)	1870	Procericambarus
O. kentuckiensis	Kentucky crayfish		Illinois, Kentucky	Rhoades	1944	Rhoadesius
O. lancifer	shrimp crayfish		Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas	(Hagen)	1870	Tragulicambarus
O. leptogonopodus	Little River Creek crayfish		Arkansas, Oklahoma	Hobbs	1948	Procericambarus
O. longidigitus	longpincered crayfish		Arkansas, Missouri	(Faxon)	1898	Procericambarus
O. luteus	golden crayfish		Arkansas, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin	(Creaser)	1933	Procericambarus
O. macrus	Neosho midget crayfish		Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas	Williams	1952	Procericambarus
O. maletae	Kisatchie painted crayfish		Louisiana, Texas	Walls	1972	Hespericambarus
O. marchandi	Mammoth Spring crayfish		Arkansas, Missouri	Hobbs	1948	Crockerinus
O. margorectus	Livingston crayfish		Kentucky	Taylor	2002	Crockerinus
O. medius	saddlebacked crayfish		Missouri	(Faxon)	1884	Procericambarus
O. meeki	Meek's crayfish		Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma	(Faxon)	1898	Buannulifictus
O. menae	Mena crayfish		Arkansas, Oklahoma	(Creaser)	1933	Procericambarus
O. mirus	wonderful crayfish		Alabama, Tennessee	(Ortmann)	1931	Procericambarus
O. mississippiensis	Mississippi crayfish		Mississippi	(Faxon)	1884	Trisellescens
O. nais	water nymph crayfish		Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas	(Faxon)	1885	Gremicambarus
O. nana	midget crayfish		Arkansas, Oklahoma	Williams	1952	Procericambarus
O. neglectus	ringed crayfish		Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma	(Faxon)	1885	Procericambarus
O. obscurus	Allegheny crayfish		Ontario, Maryland, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia	(Hagen)	1870	Crockerinus
O. ozarkae	Ozark crayfish		Arkansas, Missouri	Williams	1952	Procericambarus
O. packardi	cave crayfish		Kentucky	Rhoades	1944	Orconectes
O. pagei	mottled crayfish		Tennessee	Taylor & Sabaj	1997	Orconectes
O. palmeri	gray-speckled crayfish		Arkansas, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas	(Faxon)	1884	Buannulifictus
O. pardalotus	leopard crayfish		Illinois	Wetzel, Poly & Fetzner	2005	Procericambarus
O. pellucidus	Mammoth Cave crayfish		Kentucky, Tennessee	(Tellkampf)	1844	Orconectes
O. perfectus	complete crayfish		Alabama, Mississippi	Walls	1972	Hespericambarus
O. peruncus	Big Creek crayfish		Missouri	(Creaser)	1931	Procericambarus
O. placidus	bigclaw crayfish		Alabama, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee	(Hagen)	1870	Procericambarus
O. propinquus	northern clearwater crayfish		Canada, Eastern United States	(Girard)	1852	Crockerinus
O. punctimanus	spothanded crayfish		Arkansas, Missouri	(Creaser)	1933	Procericambarus
O. putnami	phallic crayfish		Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee	(Faxon)	1884	Procericambarus
O. quadruncus	St. Francis River crayfish		Missouri	(Creaser)	1933	Procericambarus
O. quinebaugensis	Quinebaug River crayfish		Massachusetts	Matthews & Warren	2008	Gremicambarus
O. rafinesquei	Rough River crayfish		Kentucky	Rhoades	1944	Crockerinus
O. raymondi	Norwood River crayfish		Ohio	Thoma & Stocker	2009	Procericambarus
O. rhoadesi	fishhook crayfish		Tennessee	Hobbs	1949	Trisellescens
O. ronaldi	Mud River crayfish		Kentucky	Taylor	2000	Procericambarus
O. sanbornii	Sanborn's crayfish		Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia	(Faxon)	1884	Crockerinus
O. saxatilis	Kiamichi crayfish		Oklahoma	Bouchard & Bouchard	1976	Procericambarus
O. sheltae	Shelta cave crayfish		Alabama	Cooper & Cooper	1997	Orconectes
O. shoupi	Nashville crayfish		Tennessee	Hobbs	1948	Crockerinus
O. sloanii	Sloan crayfish		Indiana, Ohio	(Bundy)	1876	Rhoadesius
O. spinosus	Coona River spiny crayfish		Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee	(Bundy)	1877	Procericambarus
O. stannardi	Little Wabash crayfish		Illinois	Page	1985	Crockerinus
O. stygocaneyi	Caney Mountain cave crayfish		Missouri	Hobbs III	2001	Orconectes
O. taylori	crescent crayfish		Tennessee	Schuster	2008	Trisellescens
O. theaphionensis	sinkhole crayfish		Indiana	Simon, Timm & Morris	2005	Procericambarus
O. tricuspis	western highland crayfish		Kentucky	Rhoades	1944	Crockerinus
O. validus	powerful crayfish		Alabama, Tennessee	(Faxon)	1914	Trisellescens
O. virginiensis	Chowanoke crayfish		North Carolina, Virginia	Hobbs	1951	Crockerinus
O. williamsi	Williams crayfish		Arkansas, Missouri	Fitzpatrick	1966	Procericambarus

References

1. Keith A. Crandall; James W. Fetzner, Jr.; Horton H. Hobbs, Jr. (2001). "Orconectes Cope, 1872". Tree of Life Web Project.
2. James W. Fetzner, Jr. (January 14, 2008). "Orconectes". The Crayfish and Lobster Taxonomy Browser. Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
3. "Search". IUCN Red List. IUCN. Retrieved October 8, 2010.

External links

• James W. Fetzner Jr. (September 11, 2006). "Key to the species of the genus Orconectes". Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
• Data related to Orconectes at Wikispecies