Parastacidae

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Parastacidae
Temporal range: Albian–recent
Cherax pulcher
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Infraorder: Astacidea
Superfamily: Parastacoidea
Huxley, 1879
Family: Parastacidae
Huxley, 1879 [1]
Genera

The Parastacidae are the

extinct taxa also in Antarctica
.

Classification and phylogeny

Parastacidae belongs to the

infraorder Astacidea, as shown in the simplified cladogram below:[2][3][4]

Astacidea
clawed lobsters
Enoplometopoidea

Enoplometopidae

Nephropoidea

Nephropidae

crayfish
Parastacoidea

Parastacidae

Astacoidea

Distribution

The natural range of the family Parastacidae [5]

Three genera are found in

southern Brazil and Uruguay
.

There are no crayfish native to continental Africa, but seven species on Madagascar, all of the genus Astacoides.[6]

endemic to New Zealand. The genera Astacopsis is endemic to Tasmania, while a further two are found on either side of the Bass Strait – Geocharax and Engaeus. The greatest diversity, however, is found on the Australian mainland. Three genera are endemic and have restricted distributions (Engaewa, Gramastacus and Tenuibranchiurus), while two are more widespread and contain more than one hundred species between them: Euastacus, around the Australian coast from Melbourne to Brisbane, and Cherax across Australia and New Guinea. The Tasmanian genus Parastacoides was determined to be a synonym of Geocharax, and is no longer valid.[7]

Fossil record

The oldest specimens from the family Parastacidae are the

Victoria, Australia.[8] The only northern hemisphere representative is also a fossil, Aenigmastacus crandalli from Canada.[9]

References

  1. ^ T. H. Huxley (1879). The Crayfish: an Introduction to the Study of Zoology. London: C. Kegan Paul & Co.
  2. PMID 31014217
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  3. doi:10.1093/jcbiol/rux070
    .
  4. PMID 24562813
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  5. ^ J. W. Fetzner Jr (2005). "The crayfish and lobster taxonomy browser: a global taxonomic resource for freshwater crayfish and their closest relatives". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 27 March 2006.
  6. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1091.1.3. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 2017-08-08. Retrieved 2012-02-15.
  7. ^ "World Register of Marine Species, genus Geocharax". Retrieved 2021-10-25.
  8. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2008.01.002. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 2012-04-17. Retrieved 2012-02-15.
  9. doi:10.1651/10-3399.1
    .

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