''Orconectes australis'' is a species 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 ...
found in
Alabama
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and
Tennessee
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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
Animals described in 1941
Cave crayfish
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