Cherax cid

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Parastacoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Superclassis: Multicrustacea Classis: Malacostraca Subclassis: Eumalacostraca Superordo: Eucarida Ordo: Decapoda Subordo: Pleocyemata Infraordo: Astacidea Superfamilia: Parastacoidea

Familia: Parastacidae
Genus: Cherax
Species: Cherax cid

Name

• Cherax cid Dawkins & Furse in Coughran, Dawkins, Hobson & Furse, 2012: 51

Holotype: QM-W 29130, ♂.

Type locality: Small unnamed stream flowing into Cid Harbour, Whitsunday Islands National Park, western side of Whitsunday Island, Queensland; 20°15’31”S 148°57’04”e; elevation ~48 m a.s.l.; Rod Hobson; 21st October 2010.

Etymology: Named after Cid Harbour, where the collecting party moored their vessel in order to access the small creek where the type specimens were discovered.

References

• Coughran, Jason, Kathryn L. Dawkins, Rod Hobson & James M. Furse, 2012: Two new freshwater crayfishes (Decapoda: Parastacidae) from Whitsunday Island, The Coral Sea, Australia. Crustacean research, Special Number 7: 45–57.