''Cambaroides'' is a

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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 include ...

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, mu ...

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 thi ...

'', 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 ...

'' (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. Th ...

'' (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 th ...

'' (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 and neighbouring parts of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's List of countries and ...

'' (Koelbel, 1892) * ''

Cambaroides wladiwostokiensis ''Cambaroides wladiwostokensis'' is a species of crayfish endemic to Primorsky Krai (Vladivostok Vladivostok ( rus, Владивосто́к, a=Владивосток.ogg, p=vɫədʲɪvɐˈstok) is the largest city and the administrative cent ...

'' Birstein & Vinogradov, 1934

References

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