Jiří Patoka This recent find coincides with another crayfish discovery: Two other species were newly described in North Carolina this month. Like the “dusty” aquarium crayfish, they had ...

These organs, called barbels, help the fish to locate bottom-dwelling prey, such as snails, mussels, clams, crayfish ... largest native fish species in North America’s Great Lakes.

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North America, for example, is home to a large number of threatened crayfish species, including Fallicambarus jeanae in Arkansas, classed as "vulnerable" on the IUCN Red List. Species under threat ...