Subspecies Cherax destructor destructor Clark, 1936

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Subspecies Cherax destructor destructor Clark, 1936

Cherax destructor Clark, E. 1936. The freshwater and land crayfishes of Australia. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 10: 5-58 [26 pl. I(3, 5), pl. V(23)].
Type data:
Lectotype NMV J871 1 specimen, Melbourne University pond, VIC.
Paralectotype(s) NMV J11894; NMV J13415; NMV J1558 19 specimens; NMV J1559 17 specimens; NMV J10877 28 specimens; NMV J11895 1 specimen, Castlemaine, VIC; NMV J11885 1 specimen, Melbourne University Pond, VIC; NMV J11882 1 specimen, Melbourne University Pond, VIC; NMV J11888 5 specimens, Melbourne University Pond, VIC; NMV J11881 1 specimen, Melbourne University Pond, VIC; NMV J11889 1 specimen, Melbourne University Pond, VIC; NMV J11887 1 specimen, Melbourne University Pond, VIC; NMV J11884 1 specimen, Melbourne University Pond, VIC; NMV J11883 1 specimen, Melbourne University Pond, VIC; NMV J10881 24 specimens, Hawthorn, VIC; NMV J10887 28 specimens, Hawthorn, VIC; NMV J1559, Hawthorn, VIC; NMV J11890 2 specimens, Mort Lake, from Salt Creek, VIC; NMV J11892 1 specimen, Muckleford Creek, VIC; NMV J11893 5 specimens, Murchison, VIC; NMV J11886 9 specimens, Melbourne Univesity Grounds, VIC; NMV J11891 8 specimens, Pyramid Hill, VIC; NMV J1558, Quarry Hole, Hawthorn, VIC; NMV J11896 3 specimens, Yacka, SA; NMV J13415 1 specimen, Melbourne University, VIC; NMV J11897 4 specimens, Blanchetown, SA; NMV J11903 2 specimens, Kapunda, SA; NMV J11898 5 specimens, Lower Light, via Two Wells, SA; NMV J11900 5 specimens, Mosquito Creek, 8 miles S of Naracoorte, SA; NMV J11899 7 specimens, Myponga, SA; NMV J11901 4 specimens, Onkaparinga,SA; NMV J11894 2 specimens, Melbourne University pond, VIC; NMV J11902 5 specimens, Renmark, No 6 lock, Murray River, SA; NMV J10881 29 specimens; NMV J11890 2 specimens; NMV J11891 1 specimen; NMV J118925 1 specimen; NMV J11893; NMV J11895 1 specimen; NMV J11896 3 specimens; NMV J11897 4 specimens; NMV J11898 5 specimens; NMV J11899 7 specimens; NMV J11900 5 specimens; NMV J11901 4 specimens; NMV J11902 5 specimens; NMV J11903 2 specimens.
Cherax davisi Clark, E. 1941. New species of Australian freshwater and land crayfishes (Family Parastacidae). Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 12: 31-40 [33 pl. 10 fig. 3].
Type data:
Syntype(s) NMV J877 5 specimens, Dumaresq Creek, Armidale, NSW.
Cherax esculus Riek, E.F. 1956. Additions to the Australian freshwater crayfish. Records of the Australian Museum 24: 1-6 [6].
Type data:
Holotype AM P12797 ♂, Peel River at Nundle, NSW.
Paratype(s) AM P12798 ♀ (as allotype); AM P12799 5 specimens.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Crandall, K.A. & De Grave, S. 2017. An updated classification of the freshwater crayfishes (Decapoda: Astacidea) of the world, with a complete species list. Journal of Crustacean Biology 37(5): 615–653 [23]

Introduction

As far as the synonymy of Cherax davisi Clark, 1941 and C. esculus Riek, 1956, Davie (2002) pointed out that both taxa are arguably junior subjective synonyms of C. destructor' (see also Sokol 1988; Austin 1996; Austin et al. 2003 for supporting analyses).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Wide-ranging inland and southern Australia, in endorheic catchments, is now widely translocated for aquaculture, introduced to WA.

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

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Channel Country (CHC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin
- Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin
- South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs
- Victoria
- Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Burrower, detritivore, freshwater, nocturnal.

Trade

aquaculture, food

Extra Ecological Information

Lotic and lentic freshwater, in permanent and ephemeral water bodies, abundant in billabongs, swamps and bore drains, burrows in, or connected to, open water.