''Cambarus cymatilis'', the Conasauga blue burrower is a species of burrowing

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, ...

in the family

Cambaridae The Cambaridae are the largest of the four families of freshwater crayfish, with over 400 Species. Most of the species in the family are native the United States east of the Great Divide and Mexico, but fewer range north to Canada, and south to ...

. It is native to

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and

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in the United States. The common name refers to the

Conasauga River The Conasauga River is a river that runs through southeast Tennessee and northwest Georgia. The Conasauga River is longU.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed April 27, 2011 an ...

. The IUCN conservation status of ''Cambarus cymatilis'' is "EN", endangered. The species faces a high risk of extinction in the near future. The IUCN status was reviewed in 2010.

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