Everglades crayfish "electric blue
morph" (Procambarus alleni)
photo credit: Chris Lukhaup

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Publication

Taylor, C.A., G.A. Schuster, J.E. Cooper, R.J. DiStefano, A.G. Eversole, P. Hamr, H.H. Hobbs, III., H.W. Robison, C.E. Skelton, R.F. Thoma. 2007. A Reassessment of the conservation status of crayfishes of the United States and Canada after 10+ years of increased awareness. Fisheries 32(8): 372-389.

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Crayfish Resources

Crayfish Links

American Fisheries Society. The American Fisheries Society (AFS) is the world's oldest and largest organization dedicated to strengthening the fisheries profession, advancing fisheries science, and conserving fisheries resources. http://www.fisheries.org/afs/index.html

Global crayfish resources at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Includes maps of 1996 Crayfish list. http://iz.carnegiemnh.org/crayfish/cf_lists.htm

Crayfish Home Page. http://crayfish.byu.edu/

Crayfish World. http://www.crayfishworld.com/

International Association of Astacology (IAA). Dedicated to the study, conservation, and wise utilization of freshwater crayfish. http://147.72.68.29/crayfish/IAA/index.htm

National General Status Working Group of Canada. http://www.wildspecies.ca/wildspecies2005/index.cfm?lang=e&sec=44

North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission. This web atlas is organized so that people wishing to obtain information about crayfishes found in North Carolina can find as much information as possible in one place. It is organized by species and each species account contains information about range, habitat, life history, ecology, and taxonomy, as well as links to a distribution map, photographs, and illustrations. http://www.ncwildlife.org/pg07_WildlifeSpeciesCon/nccrayfishes/nc_crayfishes.html

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. http://www.naturalsciences.org/research/inverts/cooper.html

Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. Alabama is home to 83 species of crayfish, more species than any other state. Some species are very widespread, occurring over large areas of eastern North American. However, many other species have very restricted distributions. ... http://www.outdooralabama.com/watchable-wildlife/what/inverts/crayfish/

Conservation Organizations

Center for Biological Diversity. The Center for Biological Diversity works through science, law, and creative media to secure a future for all species, great or small, hovering on the brink of extinction. http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/

Freshwater Ecoregions of the World (FEOW). Freshwater Ecoregions of the World, (FEOW) provides a new global biogeographic regionalization of the Earth's freshwater biodiversity. Covering virtually all freshwater habitats on Earth, this first-ever ecoregion map, together with associated species data, is a useful tool for underpinning global and regional conservation planning efforts, particularly to identify outstanding and imperiled freshwater systems; for serving as a logical framework for large-scale conservation strategies; and for providing a global-scale knowledge base for increasing freshwater biogeographic literacy. http://www.feow.org/

InfoNatura. Welcome to InfoNatura, a conservation and educational resource on the animals, and ecosystems of Latin America and the Caribbean. You can use InfoNatura to learn about more than 8,500 common, rare and endangered species and 788 ecosystems. http://www.natureserve.org/infonatura/

International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The IUCN Red List is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of plant and animal species. It uses a set of criteria to evaluate the extinction risk of thousands of species and subspecies. http://cms.iucn.org/about/work/programmes/species/red_list/search_iucn_red_list/index.cfm

NatureServe. Welcome to NatureServe Explorer, an authoritative source for information on more than 70,000 plants, animals, and ecosystems of the United States and Canada. Explorer includes particularly in-depth coverage for rare and endangered species. http://www.natureserve.org/explorer/

NatureServe. Compiled detailed data on the current and historic distributions of the native freshwater fishes of the United States, excluding Alaska and Hawaii. We believe these data are a useful tool for aquatic research and analyses and for conservation planning. Presented here are lists of the native fish species of each small watershed (8-digit cataloging unit) as defined by the U.S. Geological Survey. http://www.natureserve.org/getData/dataSets/watershedHucs/index.jsp

Society for Conservation Biology. http://www.conbio.org/

World Wildlife Fund. For more than 45 years, WWF has been protecting the future of nature. The largest multinational conservation organization in the world, WWF works in 100 countries and is supported by 1.2 million members in the United States and close to 5 million globally. http://www.worldwildlife.org/  Ecoregions: http://www.worldwildlife.org/science/ecoregions/freshwater.html

National Conservation Lists

Canada List

Canada Species at Risk Public Registry. The Public Registry is your source for news, information, and documents related to species at risk in Canada. This web site has been designed to help you better understand Canada's approach to protecting and recovering species at risk, learn about species at risk and what's being done to help them, and get involved in decision making and recovery activities. http://www.sararegistry.gc.ca/default_e.cfm

Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC). A committee of experts that assesses and designates which wild species are in some danger of disappearing from Canada. http://www.cosewic.gc.ca/

Mexico List

Instituto Nacional de Ecologia. NORMA Oficial Mexicana NOM-059-ECOL-2001, Protección ambiental-Especies nativas de México de flora y fauna silvestres-Categorías de riesgo y especificaciones para su inclusión, exclusión o cambio-Lista de especies en riesgo. http://www.ine.gob.mx/ueajei/publicaciones/normas/rec_nat/no_059_a2f.html

USA List

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Endangered Species Program. Before a plant or animal species can receive protection under the Endangered Species Act, it must first be placed on the Federal list of endangered and threatened wildlife and plants. Our listing program follows a strict legal process [12/2005] [PDF] to determine whether to list a species, depending on the degree of threat it faces. http://www.fws.gov/endangered/wildlife.html

Conservation in Action

Etowah Aquatic Habitat Conservation Plan. The Etowah Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) strives to enhance the Etowah watershed through protection of aquatic species and water resources, ensuring continued economic prosperity and quality of life for future generations. http://www.etowahhcp.org/

Southeast Aquatic Resources Partnership. The National Fish Habitat Action Plan is an unprecedented attempt to address an unseen crisis for fish nationwide: loss and degradation of their watery homes. http://www.sarpaquatic.org/habitat.shtml

Taxonomy and Nomenclature

Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). Welcome to ITIS, the Integrated Taxonomic Information System! Here you will find authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world. http://www.itis.gov/

U.S. Forest Service Key to Crayfishes of South Carolina. http://www.fs.fed.us/r8/fms/forest/publications/Crayfish.pdf

Pennsylvania Crayfish Reference Collection. http://www.lhup.edu/tnuttall/pennsylvania_crayfish_reference_.htm

Stressors

Human Population Trends & Controlling Factors. http://www.meteor.iastate.edu/gccourse/alumni/issues/pop/pop.html

Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Program. Welcome to the Nonindigenous Aquatic Species (NAS) information resource for the United States Geological Survey. Located at the FISC Gainesville, Florida facility, this site has been established as a central repository for accurate and spatially referenced biogeographic accounts of nonindigenous aquatic species. http://nas.er.usgs.gov/

U.S. and World Population. http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html