''Orconectes australis'', the southern cave crayfish, is a species of

crayfish Crayfish are freshwater crustaceans belonging to the infraorder Astacidea, which also contains lobsters. Taxonomically, they are members of the superfamilies Astacoidea and Parastacoidea. They breathe through feather-like gills. Some spe ...

in the Cambaridae family found in

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and

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. Ages of 176 years have been claimed for ''O. australis'', though this was reduced to ≤22 years in a 2012 study.

References

Cambaridae Freshwater crustaceans of North America Crustaceans described in 1941 Cave crayfish {{crayfish-stub