Marbled crayfish
The marbled crayfish or Marmorkrebs (Procambarus virginalis) is a parthenogenetic crayfish that was discovered in the pet trade in Germany in 1995. Marbled crayfish are closely related to the "slough crayfish", Procambarus fallax, which is widely distributed across Florida. No natural populations of marbled crayfish are known. Information provided by one of the original pet traders as to where the marbled crayfish originated was deemed "totally confusing and unreliable". The informal name Marmorkrebs is German for "marbled crayfish".
| Marbled crayfish | |
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| Adult marmorkrebs | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Family: | Cambaridae |
| Genus: | Procambarus |
| Species: | P. virginalis |
| Binomial name | |
| Procambarus virginalis Lyko, 2017 | |
| Countries where the Marmorkrebs has been found in the wild. It has also been found in Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Japan, Madagascar, Taiwan, and China. | |
| Synonyms | |
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Procambarus fallax forma virginalis Martin, Dorn, Kawai, van der Heiden & Scholtz, 2010 | |
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