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 ...

Crayfish (also known as crawfish and crawdads) are freshwater crustaceans that resemble small lobsters—there are more than 300 species in North America alone. They come in a variety of sizes and ...

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.

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 ...

Related: These self-cloning crayfish ladies could take over the world. ] They are also a burrowing species and are found on the Indonesian part of New Guinea. THis island north of Australia also ...

Dusty crayfish are burrowing animals, living in freshwater streams of the Indonesian part of New Guinea, an island north of Australia that also includes mainland Papua New Guinea, the study said.