Banded mudbug | |
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Banded mudbug, Lacunicambarus freudensteini, holotype | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Family: | Cambaridae |
Genus: | Lacunicambarus |
Species: | L. freudensteini
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Binomial name | |
Lacunicambarus freudensteini Glon, 2020
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Lacunicambarus freudensteini, the banded mudbug, is a species of North American burrowing crayfish found in Alabama and Mississippi. [2] [3]
The banded mudbug is a small (maximum size: ~2–2.5 inches) primary burrowing crayfish. This crayfish is typically blue overall with orange highlights on its joints, although rare bright blue and pink specimens have also been collected. [3] Because of this species' exceedingly small range and overall rarity, this species is ranked as S1 (Critically imperiled) in both states where it occurs (Alabama and Mississippi) and has a NatureServe global rank of G1 ( Critically imperiled). [1]
The banded mudbug is a very rare species known only from nine sites in Mobile County, Alabama and Jackson County, Mississippi. [3]
The banded mudbug is typically found burrowing in open, non-sloping grasslands with a shallow claypan. [3]
The banded mudbug was named after Dr. John Freudenstein. [4] The common name "banded mudbug" refers to the orange bands on the dorsal side of this species and as the fact that it is a primary burrowing crayfish (often called "mudbugs"). [3]
Banded mudbug | |
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Banded mudbug, Lacunicambarus freudensteini, holotype | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Family: | Cambaridae |
Genus: | Lacunicambarus |
Species: | L. freudensteini
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Binomial name | |
Lacunicambarus freudensteini Glon, 2020
|
Lacunicambarus freudensteini, the banded mudbug, is a species of North American burrowing crayfish found in Alabama and Mississippi. [2] [3]
The banded mudbug is a small (maximum size: ~2–2.5 inches) primary burrowing crayfish. This crayfish is typically blue overall with orange highlights on its joints, although rare bright blue and pink specimens have also been collected. [3] Because of this species' exceedingly small range and overall rarity, this species is ranked as S1 (Critically imperiled) in both states where it occurs (Alabama and Mississippi) and has a NatureServe global rank of G1 ( Critically imperiled). [1]
The banded mudbug is a very rare species known only from nine sites in Mobile County, Alabama and Jackson County, Mississippi. [3]
The banded mudbug is typically found burrowing in open, non-sloping grasslands with a shallow claypan. [3]
The banded mudbug was named after Dr. John Freudenstein. [4] The common name "banded mudbug" refers to the orange bands on the dorsal side of this species and as the fact that it is a primary burrowing crayfish (often called "mudbugs"). [3]