Troglocambarus

Taxobox | name = "Troglocambarus maclanei"
status = EN
status_ref = Cite web |url=http://www.natureserve.org/explorer/servlet/NatureServe?searchName=Troglocambarus+maclanei |title="Troglocambarus maclanei" - Hobbs, 1942 |work=NatureServe Explorer |publisher= |date=2007-07-08]
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Crustacea
classis = Malacostraca
ordo = Decapoda
familia = Cambaridae
subfamilia = Cambarinae
genus = "Troglocambarus"
genus_authority = Hobbs, 1942 cite journal |quotes=no |author=Horton H. Hobbs, Jr. |year=1942 |title=A generic revision of the crayfishes of the subfamily Cambarinae (Decapoda, Astacidae) with the description of a new genus and species |journal=American Midland Naturalist |volume=28 |issue=2 |pages=334–357 |url=http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-0031%28194209%2928%3A2%3C334%3AAGROTC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-O |doi=10.2307/2420820]
species = "T. maclanei"
binomial = "Troglocambarus maclanei"
binomial_authority = Hobbs, 1942

"Troglocambarus" is a monotypic genus of troglobitic crayfish, endemic to Florida [Cite web |url=http://iz.carnegiemnh.org/crayfish/NewAstacidea/species.asp?g=Troglocambarus&s=maclanei |title="Troglocambarus maclanei" Hobbs, 1942 |work=Crayfish Taxon Browser |author=James W. Fetzner, Jr. |date=2006-12-06 |publisher=Carnegie Museum of Natural History] . "Troglocambarus maclanei" is found underground in Hernando, Marion, Alachua, Columbia, Gilchrist and Suwanee counties , and is named after Mr. William A. McLane who first collected it .

"Troglocambarus" is believed to be the sister group to "Procambarus" [cite web |url=http://tolweb.org/Cambarinae/6702 |title=Cambarinae |work=Tree of Life Web Project |author=Keith A. Crandall, James W. Fetzner, Jr. & Horton H. Hobbs, Jr. |date=2001-01-01] . It is only found in subterranean waters and was first recorded in Squirrel Chimney, 11 miles north-west of Gainesville, Florida [cite web |url=http://tolweb.org/Troglocambarus/6721 |title="Troglocambarus" |work=Tree of Life Web Project |author=Keith A. Crandall, James W. Fetzner, Jr. & Horton H. Hobbs, Jr. |date=2001-01-01] . "T. maclanei" has no body pigment and spends most of its life upside-down, hanging from the ceiling of a cave. It is distinguished from other genera by the great enlargement of the third maxillipeds . It is unknown what "T. maclanei" feeds on .

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