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Paranephrops
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Paranephrops is a genus of freshwater crayfish found only in New Zealand. They are known by the English common name freshwater crayfish and the Māori (also written as koura in case lacking macrons).
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It sits within the topics Crustacean genera, Edible crustaceans and Freshwater crustaceans of New Zealand.
Vinony links it to 4 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
Northern Koura
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassMalacostraca
- OrderDecapoda
- FamilyParastacidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 5
- Family
- Parastacidae
- Collections
- MCZ, AM
- Recorded in
- New Zealand
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Parastacidae
- Image
- Paranephrops.jpg
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- Commons category
- Paranephrops
- taxon name
- Paranephrops
- taxon rank
- genus
- taxon common name
- Koura
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Species
- Description
- Ecology
- Diet
- Habitat
- Predators, cannibalism and disease
- Growth
- Reproduction
- Aquaculture
- History
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Paranephrops is a genus of freshwater crayfish found only in New Zealand. They are known by the English common name freshwater crayfish and the Māori (also written as koura in case lacking macrons).
==Species== The two species are:
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Paranephrops” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.