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Engaeus sericatus Clark 1936

Keith A. Crandall
Containing group: Engaeus

Types

Syntypes, Museum of Victoria, Melbourne J905 (2 intersexed), J3939 (3 intersexed), J3941 (intersexed), J3942 (4 intersexed). Possible syntype, Australian Museum, Sydney P13216 (intersexed).

Type Locality

Croydon.

Distribution

E. sericatus has been found in Western Victoria where it can be collected from some of the creeks south or south-east of the Otway Ranges, more abundantly between the Otway Ranges and Warrnambool, in some creeks south and south-west of Ballarat (north of Lake Corangamite) and between Port Fairy and Portland. Populations west and east of Warrnambool appear to be disjunct but this gap will probably be closed with further collecting. The region around Lake Corangamite was searched extensively without finding evidence of freshwater crayfish and the gap in the distribution around this lake therefore appears to be a real absence rather than an artefact of lack of collections.

References

Clark, E. 1936. The freshwater and land crayfishes of Australia. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria 10, 5-58.

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.

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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