''Fallicambarus'' is a genus of

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 ...

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 ...

from the United States and Canada. It includes 12 species, of which one is on the

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as a

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(VU) and one as an

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(EN). The species of this genus are all restricted to three states or fewer, from Texas and Oklahoma east to Florida. The subgenus Creaserinus formerly contained eight additional species of ''Fallicambarus'', but has been elevated in rank to genus, resulting in the transfer of those species from ''Fallicambarus'' to ''

Creaserinus ''Creaserinus'' is a genus of Digger Crayfish in the family Cambaridae. There are about 15 described species in ''Creaserinus'', found in North America. This genus was formerly considered a subgenus of ''Fallicambarus ''Fallicambarus'' is a g ...

''.

Species

These twelve species are members of the genus ''Fallicambarus''. *'' Fallicambarus devastator'' (Hobbs & Whiteman, 1987) Status iucn LC icon

– Texas *'' Fallicambarus dissitus'' (Penn, 1955) Status iucn DD icon

(Pine Hills Digger) – Arkansas, Louisiana *''

Fallicambarus harpi ''Fallicambarus harpi'', the Ouachita burrowing crayfish, is a species of crayfish 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 ...

'' (Hobbs & Robison, 1985) Status iucn NT icon

(Ouachita burrowing crayfish) – Arkansas *'' Fallicambarus houstonensis'' (Johnson, 2008) Status iucn LC icon

– Texas *'' Fallicambarus jeanae'' (Hobbs, 1973) Status iucn VU icon

– Arkansas *'' Fallicambarus kountzeae'' (Johnson, 2008) Status iucn LC icon

– Texas *'' Fallicambarus macneesei'' (Black, 1967) Status iucn LC icon

(Old Prairie Digger) – Louisiana, Texas *'' Fallicambarus petilicarpus'' (Hobbs & Robison, 1989) Status iucn EN icon

(slenderwrist burrowing crayfish) - Arkansas *'' Fallicambarus schusteri'' (Taylor & Robison, 2016) - Oklahoma, Arkansas *'' Fallicambarus strawni'' (Reimer, 1966) Status iucn LC icon

(Saline burrowing crayfish) – Arkansas *'' Fallicambarus tenuis'' (Hobbs, 1950) Status iucn DD icon

(Ouachita Mountain crayfish) - Oklahoma, Arkansas *'' Fallicambarus wallsi'' (Johnson, 2011) - TexasJohnson, D.P. (2011). "''Fallicambarus (F.) wallsi'' (Decapoda: Cambaridae), a new burrowing crayfish from eastern Texas." ''Zootaxa'' 2939: 59-68.

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* Cambaridae Decapod genera Crustacean genera Taxa named by Horton H. Hobbs Jr. Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Crayfish-stub