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Procambarus clarkii (red swamp crawfish; red swamp crayfish)

Synonyms: Cambarus clarkii (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Procambarus clarkii is a freshwater crayfish species, native to the Southeastern United States, but found also on other continents, where it is often an invasive pest. It is known variously as the red swamp crawfish, red swamp crayfish, Louisiana crawfish, Louisiana crayfish or mudbug.
View Wikipedia Record: Procambarus clarkii

Invasive Species

View ISSG Record: Procambarus clarkii

Emblem of

Louisiana

Prey / Diet

Gambusia holbrooki (Bore-drain fish)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Anas platyrhynchos (Mallard)1
Ardea herodias (Great Blue Heron)1
Lithobates catesbeianus (American Bullfrog)1
Megaceryle alcyon (Belted Kingfisher)1
Procyon lotor (Raccoon)1

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Ibirhynchus dimorpha[5]
Microphallus fonti[5]
Paragonimus pulmonalis[5]
Paragonimus westermani[5]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1"Diet of the Red Swamp Crayfish Procambarus clarkii in Natural Ecosystems of the Doñana National Park Temporary Fresh-Water Marsh (Spain)", P. J. Gutiérrez-Yurrita, G. Sancho, M. Á. Bravo, Á. Baltanás and C. Montes, Journal of Crustacean Biology Vol. 18, No. 1 (Feb., 1998), pp. 120-127
♦ 2del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 3Feeding habits of the European pond terrapin Emys orbicularis in Camargue (Rhône delta, Southern France), Dario Ottonello, Sebastiano Salvidio, Elisabeth Rosecchi, Amphibia-Reptilia 26 (2005): 562-565
♦ 4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0