Pontastacus
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| File:Pontastacus leptodactylus - Naturmuseum Senckenberg - DSC02134.JPG | |
| Pontastacus leptodactylus (museum specimen) | |
| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Infraorder: | Astacidea |
| Superfamily: | Astacoidea |
| Family: | Astacidae |
| Genus: | Pontastacus Bott, 1950 |
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Pontastacus is a genus of freshwater crayfish native to eastern Europe and western Asia, but also introduced elsewhere.
Classification and phylogeny
[edit | edit source]Pontastacus belongs to the family Astacidae, one of the three families of Northern Hemisphere freshwater crayfish within the superfamily Astacoidea. The internal phylogeny of Astacidae can be shown in the cladogram below:[1]
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Species
[edit | edit source]Nine species are recognized:[1]
- Pontastacus cubanicus (Birstein & Vinogradov, 1934) - Black Sea, Russia
- Pontastacus danubialis Brodsky, 1981 - Danube Delta lakes, Ukraine
- Pontastacus daucinus Brodsky, 1981 - Danube Delta lakes, Ukraine and Moldova
- Pontastacus eichwaldi (Bott, 1950) - Caspian Sea
- Pontastacus kessleri (Schimkewitsch, 1886) - Turkestan
- Pontastacus leptodactylus (Eschscholtz, 1823) - around the Black Sea and other aquatic systems in eastern Europe and Turkey; widely introduced elsewhere - "Turkish crayfish"
- Pontastacus pachypus (Rathke, 1837) - Caspian Sea, Black Sea, Sea of Azov - "Caspian crayfish"
- Pontastacus pylzowi (Skorikov, 1907) - eastern part of Transcaucasia
- Pontastacus salinus (von Nordmann, 1842) - Black Sea
References
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