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Pontastacus
''Pontastacus'' is a genus of freshwater crayfish occurring in eastern Europe and western Asia. Classification and phylogeny ''Pontastacus'' belongs to the family Astacidae, one of the three families of Northern Hemisphere freshwater crayfish within the superfamily Astacoidea. The internal phylogeny of Astacidae can be shown in the cladogram below: Species Nine species are recognized: **'' Pontastacus cubanicus'' (Birstein & Vinogradov, 1934) - Black Sea, Russia **'' Pontastacus danubialis'' Brodsky, 1981 - Danube Delta lakes, Ukraine **'' Pontastacus daucinus'' Brodsky, 1981 - Danube Delta lakes, Ukraine and Moldova **'' Pontastacus eichwaldi'' (Bott, 1950) - Caspian Sea **'' Pontastacus kessleri'' (Schimkewitsch, 1886) - Turkestan **'' Pontastacus leptodactylus'' (Eschscholtz, 1823) - around the Black Sea, in Crimea, Russia, and Turkey - "Turkish crayfish" **'' Pontastacus pachypus'' (Rathke, 1837) - Caspian Sea, Black Sea, Sea of Azov - "Caspian crayfish" **'' Pontastacus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astacidae
Astacidae is a family of freshwater crayfish native to Europe and western North America. The family is made up of four extant (living) genera: The genera '' Astacus'' (which includes the European crayfish), ''Pontastacus'' (which includes the Turkish crayfish), and '' Austropotamobius'' are all found throughout Europe and parts of western Asia, while '' Pacifastacus'' is found on the Pacific coast of the United States and British Columbia and includes the signal crayfish and the Shasta crayfish. Classification and Phylogeny Astacidae belongs to the superfamily Astacoidea, which contains all crayfish in the Northern Hemisphere. Astacoidea is the sister taxon to Parastacoidea, which contains all crayfish of the Southern Hemisphere. Crayfish and lobsters together comprise the infraorder Astacidea, as shown in the simplified cladogram below: The internal phylogeny of Astacidae can be further shown in the cladogram below: Species The family Astacidae contains the followin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pontastacus Leptodactylus
''Pontastacus leptodactylus'', the Danube crayfish, Galician crayfish, Turkish crayfish or narrow-clawed crayfish is a species of brackish water crayfish imported and introduced to Central Europe in 19th century from the Caspian Sea region. Description ''Pontastacus leptodactylus'' can grow up to in length from the tip of the rostrum to the end of the telson (tail), but is more commonly found at around in length. The sides of the thorax are very rough, usually pale yellow to pale green in colour. ''P. leptodactylus'' has two pairs of post-orbital ridges, the second of which may have spines. It also has a prominent tubercle (small nodule) on shoulder of the carapace. The claws of ''Pontastacus leptodactylus'' are long and narrow (hence the common name 'narrow-clawed crayfish'). Their upper surface is rough and the underside is the same colour as the body. A tubercle can be found on the fixed side of the claw. ''P. leptodactylus'' can be distinguished most easily from the Euro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pontastacus Pachypus
''Pontastacus 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 The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species, also known as the IUCN Red List or Red Data Book, founded in 1964, is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of biol ....Gherardi, F. & Souty-Grosset, C. 2017''Pontastacus pachypus''.The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017. Downloaded on 25 March 2022. References Astacidae Freshwater crustaceans of Europe Freshwater crustaceans of Asia Crustaceans described in 1837 Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN {{Crayfish-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astacus
''Astacus'' (from the Greek , ', meaning "lobster" or "crayfish") is a genus of crayfish found in Europe and western Asia, comprising three extant (living) species and three extinct fossil species. Due to the crayfish plague, crayfish of this genus have declined in many European regions, being replaced by the invasive North American signal crayfish, which carries the plague but is unaffected by it. Classification ''Astacus'' belongs to the family Astacidae, one of the three families of Northern Hemisphere freshwater crayfish within the superfamily Astacoidea. The internal phylogeny of Astacidae can be shown in the cladogram below: Extant species *'' Astacus astacus'' (Linnaeus, 1775) - known as the "European crayfish", "noble crayfish" or "broad-fingered crayfish" - it is distributed across Europe, in France throughout Central Europe, to the Balkan Peninsula, and north as far as parts of the British Isles, Scandinavia, and the western parts of the former Soviet Union. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phylogeny
A phylogenetic tree (also phylogeny or evolutionary tree Felsenstein J. (2004). ''Inferring Phylogenies'' Sinauer Associates: Sunderland, MA.) is a branching diagram or a tree showing the evolutionary relationships among various biological species or other entities based upon similarities and differences in their physical or genetic characteristics. All life on Earth is part of a single phylogenetic tree, indicating common ancestry. In a ''rooted'' phylogenetic tree, each node with descendants represents the inferred most recent common ancestor of those descendants, and the edge lengths in some trees may be interpreted as time estimates. Each node is called a taxonomic unit. Internal nodes are generally called hypothetical taxonomic units, as they cannot be directly observed. Trees are useful in fields of biology such as bioinformatics, systematics, and phylogenetics. ''Unrooted'' trees illustrate only the relatedness of the leaf nodes and do not require the ancestral root ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Hemisphere
The Northern Hemisphere is the half of Earth that is north of the Equator. For other planets in the Solar System, north is defined as being in the same celestial hemisphere relative to the invariable plane of the solar system as Earth's North Pole. Owing to Earth's axial tilt of 23.439281°, winter Winter is the coldest season of the year in Polar regions of Earth, polar and temperate climates. It occurs after autumn and before spring (season), spring. The tilt of Axial tilt#Earth, Earth's axis causes seasons; winter occurs when a Hemi ... in the Northern Hemisphere lasts from the December solstice (typically December 21 UTC) to the March equinox (typically March 20 UTC), while summer lasts from the June solstice through to the September equinox (typically on 23 September UTC). The dates vary each year due to the difference between the calendar year and the Year#Astronomical years, astronomical year. Within the Northern Hemisphere, oceanic currents can change the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
