Astacoidea
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Astacoidea is superfamily of freshwater crayfish that live in the Northern Hemisphere. The other superfamily of crayfish, Parastacoidea, lives in the Southern Hemisphere. Astacoidea consists of three families: Astacidae (from Europe and western North America), Cambaridae (from eastern North America), and Cambaroididae (from eastern Asia). Crayfish are closely related to lobsters, as shown in the simplified cladogram below.
Species
crayfishes
Superfamily
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassMalacostraca
- OrderDecapoda
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Research
5,139 papers- A critical review of freshwater crayfish as amphibian predators: capable consumers of toxic prey?Toxicon : official journal of the International Society on Toxinology · 2014
- Recent insights into anti-WSSV immunity in crayfish.Developmental and comparative immunology · 2021
- The pxn-lgbp-ap-1 pathway restricts virus proliferation by inducing the expression of Cru1 in crayfish.Communications biology · 2025
- Allergy to crayfish.Journal of investigational allergology & clinical immunology · 2011
- Transfection of crayfish hematopoietic tissue cells.Developmental and comparative immunology · 2018
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Astacoidea is superfamily of freshwater crayfish that live in the Northern Hemisphere. The other superfamily of crayfish, Parastacoidea, lives in the Southern Hemisphere. Astacoidea consists of three families: Astacidae (from Europe and western North America), Cambaridae (from eastern North America), and Cambaroididae (from eastern Asia). Crayfish are closely related to lobsters, as shown in the simplified cladogram below.
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