Critically Endangered
Euastacus setosus
Euastacus setosus
Euastacus setosus is a spiny crayfish in the family Parastacidae (order Decapoda), recorded as Critically Endangered.
The spiny crayfish
Euastacus setosus is a spiny crayfish in the family Parastacidae (order Decapoda).
Range and habitat
The species is found in only a couple of creek systems near Mount Glorious in the D'Aguilar Range of South East Queensland, Australia.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Habits
Freshwater crayfishes and crabs walk the bed. Dams, silt, and introduced species cut a drainage into fragments they cannot cross.
Crayfishes and crabs need cover and clean water. A named form from one creek is not interchangeable with the next drainage.
In crisis
The IUCN conservation status of Euastacus setosus is "CR", critically endangered. The species faces an extremely high risk of extinction in the immediate future. Listed as critically endangered JUNE 6 2025 under the Nature Conservation Act (Qld).
Euastacus setosus is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Euastacus setosus, Wikidata item Q10277965. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
