Florida Crayfish
Procambarus alleni
Summary 7
Procambarus alleni is a species of freshwater crayfish endemic to Florida. Its natural range is the area east of St. Johns River and all of Florida from Levy County and Marion County southwards, as well as on some of the Florida Keys. It is widely sold in the aquarium trade under a variety of names, including the blue crayfish or electric blue crayfish. It is included on the IUCN Red List as a species of Least...
Habitat 8
Habitat Type: Freshwater
Comments: It is found in both permanent lentic and lotic situations such as ditches, marshes and lakes, and is a secondary burrower (Hobbs, 1989). Acosta and Perry (2002) suggest that this species is one of the most ubiquitous inhabitants of the seasonally flooded marl prairies wetlands of the eastern Everglades. Hobbs (1989) indicates that it is tolerant of a wide variety of parameters. Crayfish density was highest in habitats dominated by sawgrass in medium hydroperiod areas and spikerush in longer-hydroperiod habitat of the Evergladesm arl marshes (Acosta and Perry, 2002).
Link to Access Genomic Data 9
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/?term=txid643729[Organism:noexp]
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