Faxonius jonesi

Faxonius jonesi, the Sucarnoochee River Crayfish, is a species of crayfish in the family Cambaridae. The common name refers to the Sucarnoochee River, near where the original specimens were found in Kemper County, Mississippi.[3] It is endemic to Mississippi and Alabama in the United States.[2][1]

Faxonius jonesi

Vulnerable  (NatureServe)[2]
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Suborder: Pleocyemata
Family: Cambaridae
Genus: Faxonius
Species:
F. jonesi
Binomial name
Faxonius jonesi
(Fitzpatrick, 1992)
Synonyms

Orconetes jonesi

References

  1. "Orconectes jonesi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  2. "Faxonius jonesi". NatureServe Explorer An online encyclopedia of life. 7.1. NatureServe. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
  3. 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): 615–653. doi:10.1093/jcbiol/rux070.
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