Spiny crayfish at Providence Portal, NSW
Identification history
| Euastacus sp. (genus) | 12 Dec 2019 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Euastacus sp. (genus) | 10 Dec 2019 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Unidentified | 9 Dec 2019 | MattM |
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User's notes
Deceased crayfish found among sedges at Eucumbene. Water level seems to have dropped a bit.
2 comments
danswell
wrote:
10 Dec 2019
Genus Euastacus, but further resolution for me is tricky as I am not familiar with what species are present around Eucumbene.
MattBeitzel
wrote:
10 Dec 2019
a very large spiny crayfish - probably Euastacus reiki from the samples in the upper Murrumbidgee but not many confirmed specimens from this area.
Location information
- Coordinates 148.631850-35.945464
- Altitude 1152.9m
- Places Providence Portal, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 9 Dec 2019 10:46 AM Recorded on
- MattM Recorded by
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Other Arthropods Freshwater Crayfish Crustaceans (Crustacea) MattM Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Species information
- Euastacus sp. (genus) Scientific name
- Spiny crayfish Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1914m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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