Comprehensive Description
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Cambarellus diminutus Hobbs
Cambarellus diminutus Hobbs, 1945b:467, figs. 1, 2, 5, 6, 10, 12, 13, 17, 18. 20, 25. 26; 1972b:26, fig. 15b.
TYPES.—Holotype, allotype, and “morphotype,” USNM 81554 (I, , II); paratypes, USNM, MCZ, CM, TU.
TYPE-LOCALITY.—Sand-bottomed stream, 3.5 miles south of Irvington, Mobile County, Alabama.
RANGE.—Mobile County, Alabama, and George and Jackson counties, Mississippi.
HABITAT.—Pools, sluggish portions of streams and ditches. Burrows when water disappears from habitat.
- bibliographic citation
- Hobbs, Horton Holcombe, Jr. 1974. "A Checklist of the North and Middle American Crayfishes (Decapoda: Astacidae and Cambaridae)." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-161. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.166
Comprehensive Description
provided by Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology
Cambarellus (Pandicambarus) diminutus Hobbs
Cambarellus diminutus Hobbs, 1945b:467, figs. 1, 2, 5, 6, 10, 12, 13, 17, 18, 20, 25, 26; 1972b:26, fig. 15b; 1974b:7, fig. 12.
Cambarellus (Pandicambarus) diminutus.—Fitzpatrick, 1983a:268, fig. 3H.
TYPES.—Holotype, allotype, and “morphotype,” USNM 81554 (male I, female, male II); paratypes, USNM, MCZ, CM, TU.
TYPE LOCALITY.—Sand-bottomed stream, 3.5 miles (5.6 km) south of Irvington, Mobile County, Alabama.
RANGE.—Mobile County, Alabama, and George and Jackson counties, Mississippi.
HABITAT.—Pools, sluggish portions of streams and ditches. Burrows as water disappears from habitat.
Cambarellus (Pandicambarus) lesliei Fitzpatrick and Laning
Cambarellus schmitti.—Hobbs, 1942b:151 [in part].
Cambarellus lesliei Fitzpatrick, 1976b:55 [nomen nudum].—Fitzpatrick and Laning, 1976:138, fig. 1.
Cambarellus leslei.—Bouchard, 1978b:451 [erroneous spelling].
Cambarellus (Pandicambarus) lesliei.—Fitzpatrick, 1983a:268, fig. 3F.
TYPES.—Holotype, allotype, and morphotype, USNM 146616, 146617, 146618 (male I, female, male II); paratypes, USNM, TU.
TYPE LOCALITY.—0.5 mile (0.8 km) south of Alabama Port, Mobile County, Alabama.
RANGE.—Baldwin, Mobile, and Washington counties, Alabama, and George County, Mississippi.
HABITAT.—Streams and pools.
- bibliographic citation
- Hobbs, Horton Holcombe, Jr. 1989. "An Illustrated Checklist of the American Crayfishes (Decapoda, Astacidae, Cambaridae, Parastacidae)." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-236. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.480
Cambarellus diminutus: Brief Summary
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Cambarellus diminutus is a species of crayfish in the family Cambaridae. It is endemic to the United States. It is native to Mississippi and Alabama, and is listed as Data Deficient on the IUCN Red List.
The Cambarellus diminutus, known as the Least Dwarf Crayfish, is in the subgenus Pandicambarus of the genus Cambarellus, this animal is typically 1–2 cm in size and an omnivore that typically feeds on anything but should be fed a diet of sinking pellet. The Least Dwarf Crayfish is a freshwater animal that can be found from Mississippi, Alabama, and southern Illinois and adaptable to slight changes in water condition, and capable of year-round breeding
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