Cambarus laconensis

Cambarus laconensis, the Lacon Exit cave crayfish,^[1][2] is a small, freshwater crayfish endemic to northern Alabama in the United States. It is an underground species known only from a single cave along the southern border of the Highland Rim in the southern Appalachians.^[1]

Cambarus laconensis
Conservation status
Critically Endangered  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Critically Imperiled  (NatureServe)[2]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Decapoda
Suborder:	Pleocyemata
Family:	Cambaridae
Genus:	Cambarus
Species:	C. laconensis
Binomial name
Cambarus laconensis Buhay & Crandall, 2009[3]

References

1. Crandall, K.A. & Cordeiro, J. (2010). "Cambarus laconensis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T164914A5937870. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T164914A5937870.en. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
2. "Cambarus laconensis". NatureServe Explorer An online encyclopedia of life. 7.1. NatureServe. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
3. Buhay, Jennifer E.; Crandall, Keith A. (2009). "Taxonomic revision of cave crayfish in the genus Cambarus, subgenus Aviticambarus (Decapoda: Cambaridae) with descriptions of two new species, C. speleocoopi and C. laconensis, endemic to Alabama, U.S.A." Journal of Crustacean Biology. 29: 121–134. doi:10.1651/08-3089.1. S2CID 83813422.