Bouchardina
Genus of crayfishes / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bouchardina is a genus of North American crayfish, containing a single species, Bouchardina robisoni, commonly known as Bayou Bodcau crayfish which is named after Henry W. Robison, one of the scientists who found it.[3] It can be found in the bayou basins of southwestern Arkansas, United States. It is not considered to be significantly threatened as its habitat has low human disturbance; it is listed as data deficient on the IUCN Red List,[1] S1 (critically imperiled) by the Nature Conservancy[4] and by NatureServe as G2 (imperiled)[2] and by the American Fisheries Society as vulnerable.
Bouchardina | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Family: | Cambaridae |
Genus: | Bouchardina Hobbs, 1977 |
Species: | B. robisoni |
Binomial name | |
Bouchardina robisoni Hobbs, 1977 | |
In 2010, research by scientists suggested changing the IUCN status to threatened as it was only known from four counties (Lafayette, Hempstead, Nevada and Columbia County, Arkansas)[5] and only a few specimens had been collected since 1977.[4]