Common Yabby at QPRC LGA
Identification history
| Cherax destructor | 8 May 2024 | MattBeitzel | ||
| Cherax destructor | 7 May 2024 | CarbonAI | ||
| Cherax destructor | 7 May 2024 | LisaH |
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Intrigued by what would eat this yabby and leave the claw, given it was found on the edge of a dam?
7 comments
LisaH
wrote:
7 May 2024
Oh, thank you, that makes sense - there is a little pies cormorant here. I just couldn’t imagine them snapping off the claws - I assumed they swallowed the yabby whole.
MattBeitzel
wrote:
8 May 2024
or a rakali. There appears to be the gastrolith of the crayfish, the white circles in the second picture. these are located in the body of the crayfish.
MattBeitzel
wrote:
8 May 2024
Yes particularly when the crayfish shed. The montane euastacus crayfish species suffer heavily from fox predation after bushfires.
LisaH
wrote:
8 May 2024
Location information
- Maps Mongarlowe River
- Places Mongarlowe, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- LisaH Recorded by
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Other Arthropods Freshwater Crayfish Crustaceans (Crustacea) LisaH Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Species information
- Cherax destructor Scientific name
- Common Yabby Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 950m Recorded at altitude
- 83 images trained Machine learning
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