Northern cave crayfish | |
---|---|
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Family: | Cambaridae |
Genus: | Orconectes |
Species: | O. inermis
|
Binomial name | |
Orconectes inermis (Cope, 1872)
|
Orconectes inermis, the Northern cave crayfish, is a troglomorphic freshwater crayfish native to Kentucky and Indiana in the United States.[1][2]
There are two sub-species described;
The two sub-species are known to form intergrades in the range where they overlap.[2]