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Parastacidae

Synonyms: Austroastacidae; Euastacidae

Wikipedia Abstract

Parastacidae is the family of freshwater crayfish found in the southern hemisphere. The family is a classic Gondwana-distributed taxon, with extant members in South America, Madagascar, Australia, New Zealand and New Guinea, and extinct taxa also in Antarctica.
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Genus

Aenigmastacus (1)
Astacoides (7)
Astacopsis (3)   (1)
Cherax (59)   (3)
Engaeus (35)   (7)
Engaewa (6)   (3)
Euastacus (53)   (33)
Geocharax (2)
Gramastacus (2)
Lammuastacus (1)
Ombrastacoides (11)   (2)
Palaeoechinastacus (1)
Paranephrops (koura) (3)
Parastacus (17)
Samastacus (1)
Spinastacoides (3)
Tenuibranchiurus (1)   (1)
Virilastacus (4)

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External References

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