Genus Euastacus Clark, 1936

Museums

Regional Maps

• Euastacus Clark, E. 1936. The freshwater and land crayfishes of Australia. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, Melbourne 10: 5-58 [10] [gender masculine].

  Type species:

   Cancer serratus Shaw, 1794 by original designation (= Euastacus spinifer (Heller, 1865); type designation was later changed to Euastacus elongatus Clark, (= E. armatus) but this is invalid and original designation must stand, (Davie, P., 2002) (409)).
• Euastacoides Riek, E.F. 1956. Additions to the Australian freshwater crayfish. Records of the Australian Museum 24: 1-6 [4] [gender masculine].

  Type species:

   Euastacoides setosus Riek, 1956 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Morgan, G.J. 1988. Freshwater crayfish of the genus Euastacus Clark (Decapoda: Parastacidae) from Queensland. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 49(1): 1-49 [35]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

South Eastern Queensland (SEQ) ; NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Australian Alps (AA), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coast, NE coastal
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, S Gulfs coast, SE coastal
  • Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal

General References

Merrick, J.R. 1993. Freshwater Crayfishes of New South Wales. Milson's Point : Linnean Society of N.S.W. 127 pp. (distribution—S and E Australia)

Morgan, G.J. 1986. Freshwater crayfish of the genus Euastacus Clark (Decapoda, Parastacidae) from Victoria. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 47(1): 1-57

Morgan, G.J. 1997. Freshwater crayfish of the genus Euastacus Clark (Decapoda: Parastacidae) from New South Wales, with a key to all species of the genus. Records of the Australian Museum 23: 1-110

Shull, H.C., Pérez-Losada, M., Blair, D., Sewell, K., Sinclair, E.A., Lawler, S., Ponniah, M. & Crandall, K.A. 2005. Phylogeny and biogeography of the freshwater crayfish Euastacus (Decapoda: Parastacidae) based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 37: 249-263

 

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
		03-Jun-2010	MODIFIED