Procambarus econfinae

The crayfish

Northern hemisphere crayfishes are freshwater decapods. Many US species are tied to a single drainage or cave system.

Decapods are ten-legged crustaceans — crabs, shrimps, and crayfishes. Freshwater species here are usually tied to a drainage.

Range and habitat

It is only found around Panama City, Florida, and is listed as an endangered species on the IUCN Red List.

Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.

Diet

Crayfishes hide under rock or in burrows and feed as omnivores. Stream species need cold, oxygenated water and an intact bank.

Freshwater crayfishes and crabs walk the bed. Dams, silt, and introduced species cut a drainage into fragments they cannot cross.

In crisis

It has been listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 since February 2022.

Procambarus econfinae is 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 Procambarus econfinae — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q1623658. 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.