''Cambaroides'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

freshwater Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids. Although the term specifically excludes seawater and brackish water, it does in ...

crayfish Crayfish are freshwater crustaceans belonging to the clade Astacidea, which also contains lobsters. In some locations, they are also known as crawfish, craydids, crawdaddies, crawdads, freshwater lobsters, mountain lobsters, rock lobsters, ...

from eastern Asia (eastern Russia, northeastern China, Korean Peninsula and Japan). Together with ''

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 ...

'', they are the only crayfish native to Asia. ''Cambaroides'' contains about six species: * ''

Cambaroides dauricus ''Cambaroides dauricus'' is a species of crayfish endemic to north-eastern China, the Korean Peninsula and neighbouring parts of Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe a ...

'' (Pallas, 1772) * ''

Cambaroides japonicus ''Cambaroides japonicus'', also known as , is a species of crayfish endemic to Japan. They are small in size (6 cm) and grayish in color. Its front claws are much weaker than the American crayfish, which is an invasive species in Japan. T ...

'' (De Haan, 1841) * ''

Cambaroides koshewnikowi ''Cambaroides koshewnikowi'' is a species of crayfish endemic to South Siberia Siberia ( ; rus, Сибирь, r=Sibir', p=sʲɪˈbʲirʲ, a=Ru-Сибирь.ogg) is an extensive geographical region, constituting all of North Asia, from the ...

'' (Birstein & Vinogradov, 1934) * ''

Cambaroides sachalinensis ''Cambaroides sachalinensis'' is a species of freshwater crayfish endemic to Sakhalin Sakhalin ( rus, Сахали́н, r=Sakhalín, p=səxɐˈlʲin; ja, 樺太 ''Karafuto''; zh, c=, p=Kùyèdǎo, s=库页岛, t=庫頁島; Manchu: ᠰ� ...

'' ( De Haan, 1841) * ''

Cambaroides schrenckii ''Cambaroides schrenckii'' is a species of crayfish endemic to north-eastern China and Russia. It is a freshwater species that also occurs in some brackish water areas. It occurs in habitats with still water, typically no more than 1 metre deep ...

'' (Kessler, 1874) * ''

Cambaroides similis ''Cambaroides similis'' is a species of crayfish endemic to the Korean Peninsula Korea ( ko, 한국, or , ) is a peninsular region in East Asia. Since 1945, it has been divided at or near the 38th parallel, with North Korea (Democrati ...

'' (Koelbel, 1892) * '' Cambaroides wladiwostokiensis'' Birstein & Vinogradov, 1934

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Cambaridae Decapod genera Taxa named by Walter Faxon {{Crayfish-stub