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.
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
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29-May-2012 | 29-May-2012 | MOVED | ||
20-Oct-2011 | 20-Oct-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
03-Jun-2010 | MODIFIED |