Astacus pachypus

Tags: Crustacean.

Astacus pachypus the Caspian crayfish is a species of crayfish found in the Caspian Sea the Don river and parts of the Black Sea and Sea of Azov where it lives in salinities of up to 14‰. It is listed as Data Deficient in the IUCN Red List.

binomial authority

Martin Rathke

class

Malacostraca

conservation status

DD

conservation status system

iucn3.1

family

Astacidae

genus

Astacus

kingdom

Animal

order

Decapoda

phylum

Arthropod, Crustacean

synonym

*Astacus caspius (Eichwald 1841), *Caspiastacus pachypus (Rathke 1837), *Pontastacus pachypus (Rathke 1837), *Potamobius pachypus (Rathke 1837)