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Engaeus fossor Erichson 1846

Keith A. Crandall
Containing group: Engaeus

Types

Lectotype, Zoology Museum, Humboldt University, Berlin 1123 (intersexed); paralectotypes, Zoology Museum, Humboldt University, Berling (intersexed), 1124 (3 intersexed).

Type Locality

Tasmania.

Distribution

E. fossor has the widest distribution of all endemic Engaeus species in Tasmania. Although the species is found on Hunter Is., it is not present in the extensive collections of freshwater crayfish from King Is.

Habitat

E. fossor occupies burrows of type 2 habitats almost exclusively; it has only rarely been found in burrows which are independent of the water-table or in burrows in permanent water. It can be found in habitats of a wide variety of vegetation types. For instance, in the north-west region of Tasmania it is found in the vast swamps dominated by blackwood (Acacia melanoxylon), or in tea-tree swamps associated with small creeks, or in coastal plains (where Geocharax sp. occurs in the permanently wet areas); elsewhere it can be located in buttongrass plains (with Parastacoides sp.), in wet sclerophyll forest or Nothofagus cunninghammi rainforest (for instance at the Lower Gordon River and at the type locality for E. cisternarius).

References

Crandall, Keith A., James W. Fetzner, Jr., Carlos G. Jara, and Ludwig Buckup. 2000. On the Phylogenetic Positioning of the South American Freshwater Crayfish Genera (Decapoda: Parastacidae). Journal of Crustacean Biology, 20(3): 530-540.

Erichson, W. F. 1846. Verberischt der Arten der Gattung Astacus. Archives fur Naturgeschichte 12, 86-103.

Horwitz, Pierre. 1990. A Taxonomic Revision of Species in the Freshwater Crayfish Genus Engaeus Erichson (Decapoda: Parastacidae). Invertebr. Taxon., 1990, 4, 427-614.

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Keith A. Crandall
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA

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