Species Cherax quadricarinatus (von Martens, 1868)

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Species Cherax quadricarinatus (von Martens, 1868)

Redclaw

Astacus quadricarinatus Martens, E. von 1868. Über einige neue Crustaceen. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin 1868: 608-615 [617].
Type data:
Status unknown, Cape York, QLD.

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

In exorheic drainage systems from Daly River, NT, to Normanby River, NE QLD, now translocated widely in eastern QLD, and to Lake Kununurra on the Ord River.

Australian Endemic.

Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

NT, Qld: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- Northern Territory: N coastal
- Queensland: N Gulf, NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Burrower, coastal streams, freshwater, freshwater.

Trade

aquaculture, food

Extra Ecological Information

Permanent freshwater, absent from acidic swamps and perched lakes, short burrows in, or connected to, open water.

General References

Coughran, J. & Leckie, S.R. 2007. Invasion of a New South Wales stream by the Tropical Crayfish, Cherax quadricarinatus (von Martens). pp. 40-46 in Lunney, D., Eby, P., Hutchings, P. & Burgin, S. (eds). Pest or Guest: the Zoology of Overabundance. Mosman, New South Wales : Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales.

Doupé, R.G. 2007. Where are they now? A baseline distributional description of introduced redclaw crayfish Cherax quadricarinatus (von Martens) in the east Kimberley. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 90: 215-218 (introduced in 1998, appears to be restricted to Lake Kununurra)

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.

Published	Action Date	Action Type
29-May-2012	29-May-2012	MOVED
20-Oct-2011	20-Oct-2011	MODIFIED
	03-Jun-2010	MODIFIED

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