| Virilastacus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Family: | Parastacidae |
| Genus: | Virilastacus Hobbs, 1991 |
| Type species | |
| Virilastacus araucanius | |
| Species | |
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Virilastacus is a genus of freshwater burrowing crayfish species endemic to Chile. It has four described species. The first species was described in 1914, but since 2005, three other species have been added to this genus.[1][2]
- ^ Rudolph, Erich H.; Crandall, Keith A. (2012), "A new species of burrowing crayfish, Virilastacus jarai (Crustacea, Decapoda, Parastacidae) from central-southern Chile", Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 125 (3): 258–275, doi:10.2988/11-39.1, S2CID 85033053
- ^ Ficha de antecedentes de especie: Virilastacus araucanius (PDF) (in Spanish), Ministry of the Environment, 2013, pp. 1–6