Cambarus zophonastes

Cambarus zophonastes

Taxobox | name = "Cambarus zophonastes"
status = CR | status_system = IUCN2.3
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Crustacea
classis = Malacostraca
ordo = Decapoda
familia = Cambaridae
genus = "Cambarus"
species = "C. zophonastes"
binomial = "Cambarus zophonastes"
binomial_authority = Hobbs & Bedinger, 1964

"Cambarus zophonastes" is a species of crayfish in the family Cambaridae. It is endemic to the United States. The crayfish in Arkansas is nicknamed the 'Hell Creek Crayfish'.

The Cave crayfish zophonastes is a cave-adapted species that lacks pigment in the body and eyes.

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* American Fisheries Society Endangered Species Committee 1996. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/3678/all "Cambarus zophonastes"] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 09 August 2007.
*http://www.naturalheritage.com/program/rare-species/federally-listed/animal-profiles/hell_creek_crayfish.asp


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