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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Superclassis: Multicrustacea
Classis: Malacostraca
Subclassis: Eumalacostraca
Superordo: Eucarida
Ordo: Decapoda
Subordo: Pleocyemata
Infraordo: Astacidea
Superfamilia: Parastacoidea

Familia: Parastacidae
Genus: Parastacus
Species: P. brasiliensis – P. buckupi – P. caeruleodactylus – P. defossus – P. fluviatilis – P. laevigatus – P. macanudo – P. nicoleti – P. pilicarpus – P. pilimanus – P. promatensis – P. pugnax – P. saffordi – P. tuerkayi – P. varicosus
Name

Parastacus Huxley, 1879

Type species: Astacus pilimanus von Martens, 1869

Parastacus pugnax - inat 13351889

Parastacus pugnax, Chile

References
Links

Parastacus in the World Register of Marine Species

BHL bibliography
Catalogue of Life: 2021 Annual Checklist
Parastacus – Taxon details on Encyclopedia of Life (EOL).
Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Parastacus.
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Species-ID

Parastacus is a genus of southern crawfish in the family Parastacidae. There are about 15 described species in Parastacus, found in South America. In addition, there are some preserved specimens from Australia that are possibly members of this genus.[1][2][3]
Parastacus brasiliensis, Brazil
Species

These 15 species belong to the genus Parastacus:

Parastacus brasiliensis (von Martens, 1869)
Parastacus buckupi Huber, Ribeiro & Araujo, 2018
Parastacus caeruleodactylus Ribeiro & Araujo, 2016 (blue-fingered burrowing crayfish)
Parastacus defossus Faxon, 1898
Parastacus fluviatilis Ribeiro & Buckup, 2016 (highland streams crayfish)
Parastacus laevigatus Buckup & Rossi, 1980
Parastacus macanudo Huber, Rockhill, Araujo & Ribeiro, 2020
Parastacus nicoleti (Philippi, 1882)
Parastacus pilicarpus Huber, Ribeiro & Araujo, 2018
Parastacus pilimanus (von Martens, 1869)
Parastacus promatensis Fontoura & Conter, 2008
Parastacus pugnax (Poeppig, 1835)
Parastacus saffordi Faxon, 1898
Parastacus tuerkayi Ribeiro, Huber & Araujo, 2017
Parastacus varicosus Faxon, 1898

References

"Parastacus". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-10-25.
"World Register of Marine Species, genus Parastacus". Retrieved 2021-10-25.
Crandall, Keith A.; De Grave, Sammy (2017). "An updated classification of the freshwater crayfishes (Decapoda: Astacidea) of the world, with a complete species list". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 37 (5). doi:10.1093/jcbiol/rux070.

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