Species Euastacus fleckeri (Watson, 1935)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Astacopsis fleckeri Watson, K. 1935. A new Astacopsis from North Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 10: 233-235 1 pl. [233 pl. 34].

  Type data:

   Holotype QM W581 ♂, Roots Creek near Mt Carbine in Mt Molloy district, 130 km W of Cairns, QLD.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Mt Carbine Tableland, NE QLD.

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

Freshwater.

Extra Ecological Information

Rainforest streams, in creeks that are well-shaded, with log and leaf litter abundant, above 1000 m altitude.

 

General References

Morgan, G.J. 1988. Freshwater crayfish of the genus Euastacus Clark (Decapoda: Parastacidae) from Queensland. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 49(1): 1-49 [11]

Morgan, G.J. 1991. The spiny freshwater crayfish of Queensland. Queensland Naturalist 31(1–2): 29-36 (key)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
10-May-2022	DECAPODA Latreille, 1802	04-Apr-2023	MODIFIED
29-May-2012		29-May-2012	MOVED
20-Oct-2011		20-Oct-2011	MODIFIED
		03-Jun-2010	MODIFIED