Orconectes facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Orconectes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Crustacea
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Family:	Cambaridae
Subfamily:	Cambarinae
Genus:	Orconectes Cope, 1872
Type species
Orconectes inermis Cope, 1872
Subgenera
Billecambarus Buannulifictus Crockerinus Faxonius Gremicambarus Hespericambarus Orconectes Procericambarus Rhoadesius Tragulicambarus Trisellescens

Orconectes is a genus of cave dwelling freshwater crayfish, native to the eastern United States and Canada. Surface dwelling species, formerly categorised here were moved to Faxonius in 2017.

Taxonomy

The genus Orconectes was erected in 1872 by Edward Drinker Cope to house Astacus pellucidus (now Orconectes pellucidus) and his new species, Orconectes inermis.

Approximately 85 species are known, divided into 11 subgenera.

Scientific name	Common name	Red List status	Distribution	Authority	Year	Subgenus
O. acares	redspotted stream crayfish	1	Arkansas	Fitzpatrick	1965	Procericambarus
O. alabamensis	Alabama crayfish	1	Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee	Faxon (Faxon)	1884	Trisellescens
O. australis	southern cave crayfish	1	Alabama, Tennessee	Rhoades (Rhoades)	1941	Orconectes
O. barrenensis	Barren River crayfish	1	Kentucky, Tennessee	Rhoades	1944	Procericambarus
O. barri	Cumberland Plateau cave crayfish	8	Kentucky, Tennessee	Buhay & Crandall	2008	Orconectes
O. bisectus	Crittenden crayfish	3	Kentucky	Rhoades	1944	Crockerinus
O. burri	Blood River crayfish	2	Kentucky, Tennessee	Taylor & Sabaj	1998	Crockerinus
O. carolinensis	North Carolina spiny crayfish	1	North Carolina	Cooper & Cooper	1995	Procericambarus
O. causeyi	western plains crayfish	1	Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas	Jester	1967	Gremicambarus
O. chickasawae	Chickasaw crayfish	1	Mississippi	Cooper & Hobbs	1980	Trisellescens
O. compressus	slender crayfish	1	Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee	Faxon (Faxon)	1884	Gremicambarus
O. cooperi	Flint River crayfish	1	Alabama, Tennessee	Cooper & Hobbs	1980	Trisellescens
O. cristavarius	spiny stream crayfish	1	Kentucky, North Carolina, Virginia	Taylor	2000	Procericambarus
O. deanae	conchas crayfish	1	New Mexico, Oklahoma	Reimer & Jester	1975	Hespericambarus
O. difficilis	painted crayfish	1	Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas	Faxon (Faxon)	1898	Hespericambarus
O. durelli	saddle crayfish	1	Kentucky, Tennessee	Bouchard & Bouchard	1995	Procericambarus
O. erichsonianus	reticulate crayfish	1	Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia	Faxon (Faxon)	1898	Crockerinus
O. etnieri	Ets crayfish	1	Mississippi, Tennessee	Bouchard & Bouchard	1976	Trisellescens
O. eupunctus	coldwater crayfish	3	Arkansas, Missouri	Williams	1952	Crockerinus
O. forceps	surgeon crayfish	1	Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia	Faxon (Faxon)	1884	Procericambarus
O. harrisonii	belted crayfish	1	Missouri	Faxon (Faxon)	1884	Billecambarus
O. hartfieldi	Yazoo crayfish	3	Mississippi	Fitzpatrick & Suttkus	1992	Hespericambarus
O. hathawayi	Teche pointed crayfish	1	Louisiana	Penn	1952	Hespericambarus
O. hobbsi	Pontchartrain painted crayfish	8	Louisiana, Mississippi	Penn	1950	Buannulifictus
O. holti	bimaculate crayfish	8	Alabama	Cooper & Hobbs	1980	Trisellescens
O. hylas	woodland crayfish	1	Missouri	Faxon (Faxon)	1890	Procericambarus
O. illinoiensis	Shawnee crayfish	1	Illinois	Brown	1956	Crockerinus
O. incomptus	Tennessee cave crayfish	3	Tennessee	Hobbs & Barr	1972	Orconectes
O. inermis	ghost crayfish / unarmed crayfish	1	Indiana, Kentucky	Cope	1872	Orconectes
O. jeffersoni	Louisville crayfish	4	Kentucky	Rhoades	1944	Crockerinus
O. jonesi	Sucarnoochee crayfish	8	Alabama, Mississippi	Fitzpatrick	1992	Gremicambarus
O. juvenilis	Kentucky River crayfish	1	Indiana, Kentucky	Hagen (Hagen)	1870	Procericambarus
O. kentuckiensis	Kentucky crayfish	1	Illinois, Kentucky	Rhoades	1944	Rhoadesius
O. lancifer	shrimp crayfish	1	Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas	Hagen (Hagen)	1870	Tragulicambarus
O. leptogonopodus	Little River Creek crayfish	1	Arkansas, Oklahoma	Hobbs	1948	Procericambarus
O. longidigitus	longpincered crayfish	1	Arkansas, Missouri	Faxon (Faxon)	1898	Procericambarus
O. luteus	golden crayfish	1	Arkansas, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin	Creaser (Creaser)	1933	Procericambarus
O. macrus	Neosho midget crayfish	1	Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas	Williams	1952	Procericambarus
O. maletae	Kisatchie painted crayfish	8	Louisiana, Texas	Walls	1972	Hespericambarus
O. marchandi	Mammoth Spring crayfish	2	Arkansas, Missouri	Hobbs	1948	Crockerinus
O. margorectus	Livingston crayfish	2	Kentucky	Taylor	2002	Crockerinus
O. medius	saddlebacked crayfish	1	Missouri	Faxon (Faxon)	1884	Procericambarus
O. meeki	Meek's crayfish	1	Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma	Faxon (Faxon)	1898	Buannulifictus
O. menae	Mena crayfish	1	Arkansas, Oklahoma	Creaser (Creaser)	1933	Procericambarus
O. mirus	wonderful crayfish	1	Alabama, Tennessee	Ortmann (Ortmann)	1931	Procericambarus
O. mississippiensis	Mississippi crayfish	8	Mississippi	Faxon (Faxon)	1884	Trisellescens
O. nais	water nymph crayfish	1	Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas	Faxon (Faxon)	1885	Gremicambarus
O. nana	midget crayfish	1	Arkansas, Oklahoma	Williams	1952	Procericambarus
O. neglectus	ringed crayfish	1	Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma	Faxon (Faxon)	1885	Procericambarus
O. obscurus	Allegheny crayfish	1	Ontario, Maryland, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia	Hagen (Hagen)	1870	Crockerinus
O. ozarkae	Ozark crayfish	1	Arkansas, Missouri	Williams	1952	Procericambarus
O. packardi	cave crayfish	4	Kentucky	Rhoades	1944	Orconectes
O. pagei	mottled crayfish	1	Tennessee	Taylor & Sabaj	1997	Orconectes
O. palmeri	gray-speckled crayfish	1	Arkansas, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas	Faxon (Faxon)	1884	Buannulifictus
O. pardalotus	leopard crayfish	4	Illinois	Wetzel, Poly & Fetzner	2005	Procericambarus
O. pellucidus	Mammoth Cave crayfish	1	Kentucky, Tennessee	Tellkampf (Tellkampf)	1844	Orconectes
O. perfectus	complete crayfish	1	Alabama, Mississippi	Walls	1972	Hespericambarus
O. peruncus	Big Creek crayfish	3	Missouri	Creaser (Creaser)	1931	Procericambarus
O. placidus	bigclaw crayfish	1	Alabama, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee	Hagen (Hagen)	1870	Procericambarus
O. propinquus	northern clearwater crayfish	1	Canada, Eastern United States	Girard (Girard)	1852	Crockerinus
O. punctimanus	spothanded crayfish	1	Arkansas, Missouri	Creaser (Creaser)	1933	Procericambarus
O. putnami	crayfish	1	Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee	Faxon (Faxon)	1884	Procericambarus
O. quadruncus	St. Francis River crayfish	3	Missouri	Creaser (Creaser)	1933	Procericambarus
O. quinebaugensis	Quinebaug River crayfish	8	Massachusetts	Matthews & Warren	2008	Gremicambarus
O. rafinesquei	Rough River crayfish	1	Kentucky	Rhoades	1944	Crockerinus
O. raymondi	Norwood River crayfish		Ohio	Thoma & Stocker	2009	Procericambarus
O. rhoadesi	fishhook crayfish	1	Tennessee	Hobbs	1949	Trisellescens
O. ronaldi	Mud River crayfish	1	Kentucky	Taylor	2000	Procericambarus
O. sanbornii	Sanborn's crayfish	1	Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia	Faxon (Faxon)	1884	Crockerinus
O. saxatilis	Kiamichi crayfish	3	Oklahoma	Bouchard & Bouchard	1976	Procericambarus
O. sheltae	Shelta cave crayfish	5	Alabama	Cooper & Cooper	1997	Orconectes
O. shoupi	Nashville crayfish	4	Tennessee	Hobbs	1948	Crockerinus
O. sloanii	Sloan crayfish	1	Indiana, Ohio	Bundy (Bundy)	1876	Rhoadesius
O. spinosus	Coona River spiny crayfish	1	Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee	Bundy (Bundy)	1877	Procericambarus
O. stannardi	Little Wabash crayfish	1	Illinois	Page	1985	Crockerinus
O. stygocaneyi	Caney Mountain cave crayfish	1	Missouri	Hobbs III	2001	Orconectes
O. taylori	crescent crayfish	3	Tennessee	Schuster	2008	Trisellescens
O. theaphionensis	sinkhole crayfish	8	Indiana	Simon, Timm & Morris	2005	Procericambarus
O. tricuspis	western highland crayfish	1	Kentucky	Rhoades	1944	Crockerinus
O. validus	powerful crayfish	1	Alabama, Tennessee	Faxon (Faxon)	1914	Trisellescens
O. virginiensis	Chowanoke crayfish	8	North Carolina, Virginia	Hobbs	1951	Crockerinus
O. williamsi	Williams crayfish	1	Arkansas, Missouri	Fitzpatrick	1966	Procericambarus