| Austropotamobius Temporal range:
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| Austropotamobius torrentium | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Family: | Astacidae |
| Genus: | Austropotamobius Skorikow, 1907 |
| Type species | |
| Cancer torrentium Schrank, 1803
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Austropotamobius is a genus of European crayfish in the family Astacidae. It contains four extant species,[1][2]
- Austropotamobius bihariensis Pârvulescu 2019[2] — Idle crayfish
- Austropotamobius fulcisianus (Ninni, 1886)
- Austropotamobius pallipes (Lereboullet, 1858) — White-clawed crayfish
- Austropotamobius torrentium (Schrank, 1803) — Stone crayfish
- Austropotamobius llopisi ? (Via, 1971) † Las Hoyas (Cuenca prov.), and el Montsec (Lleida prov.), Spain, Early Cretaceous (Barremian) (placement in the genus has been questioned[3])
- ^ Crandall, Keith A; De Grave, Sammy (2017). "An updated classification of the freshwater crayfishes (Decapoda: Astacidea) of the world, with a complete species list". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 37 (5): 615–653. doi:10.1093/jcbiol/rux070.
- ^ a b Pârvulescu, Lucian (2019). "Introducing a new Austropotamobius crayfish species (Crustacea, Decapoda, Astacidae): A Miocene endemism of the Apuseni Mountains, Romania". Zoologischer Anzeiger. 279: 94–102. doi:10.1016/j.jcz.2019.01.006.
- ^ Audo, Denis; Hasiotis, Stephen T; Kawai, Tadashi (2023-12-01). "Diversity and evolutionary history of fossil crayfishes". Journal of Crustacean Biology. 43 (4). doi:10.1093/jcbiol/ruad079. ISSN 0278-0372.