Critically Endangered
Procambarus paradoxus
Procambarus paradoxus
Procambarus paradoxus is a crayfish in the family Cambaridae (order Decapoda), recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to Mexico.
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
Procambarus paradoxus is a freshwater crayfish in the family Cambaridae and is found in Puebla, Mexico.
GBIF currently lists 27 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.
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
Procambarus paradoxus 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 Procambarus paradoxus — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q4468700 and GBIF occurrence geography. 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.
