Virilastacus

Virilastacus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Astacidea
Family: Parastacidae
Genus: Virilastacus
Species

4, See below.

Virilastacus is a genus of freshwater burrowing crayfish species endemic to Chile. It has four described species. The first species was described in 1914, but since 2005, three other species have been added to this genus.[1][2]

Species

  • Virilastacus araucanius Faxon, 1914
  • Virilastacus jarai Erich H. Rudolph and Keith A. Crandall, 2012[3]
  • Virilastacus retamali Erich H. Rudolph1 and Keith A. Crandall, 2007[4]
  • Virilastacus rucapihuelensis Rudolph and Crandall, 2005[5]

References

  1. ↑ Rudolph, Erich H.; Crandall, Keith A. (2012), "A new species of burrowing crayfish, Virilastacus jarai (Crustacea, Decapoda, Parastacidae) from central-southern Chile", Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 125 (3): 258–275, doi:10.2988/11-39.1
  2. ↑ Ficha de antecedentes de especie: Virilastacus araucanius (PDF) (in Spanish), Ministry of the Environment, 2013, pp. 1–6
  3. ↑ "A new species of burrowing crayfish, Virilastacus jarai (Crustacea, Decapoda, Parastacidae) from central-southern Chile"
  4. ↑ "A New Species of Burrowing Crayfish Virilastacus Retamali (Decapoda: Parastacidae) from the Southern Chile Peatland"
  5. ↑ http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/153746/0 IUCNRedlist.org/
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