Species Cherax dispar Riek, 1951

Museums

Regional Maps

Taxonomic Decision for Subspecies Arrangement

• Riek, E.F. 1951. The Freshwater Crayfish (Family Parastacidae) of Queensland. Records of the Australian Museum 22(4): 368-388 (there is debate over the validity of the subspecies and, although listed here, they are presently not generally recognised)

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Between Agnes Water (based on QM record) and Brisbane River, SE QLD, including large offshore sand islands.

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Burrower, freshwater, freshwater.

Extra Ecological Information

In permanent freshwater, including perched lakes and large coastal streams, short burrows in or connected to open water.

 

General References

Davie, P. 2002. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Phyllocarida, Hoplocarida, Eucarida (Part 1). In Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 19.3A. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia xii 551 pp. [399] (may prove to be senior synonym of C. cuspidatus)

Short, J.W. 1995. Freshwater and terrestrial Crustaceans. pp. 45–54 in, Wildlife of Greater Brisbane. Brisbane : Queensland Museum 340 pp. [51] (colour photo and diagnostic characters)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
29-May-2012		29-May-2012	MOVED
20-Oct-2011		20-Oct-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)