Cambarus laconensis

{{Short description|Species of crayfish}}

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| status = CR

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Crandall, K.A. |author-link= Keith A. Crandall |author2= Cordeiro, J. |name-list-style=amp |year= 2010 |title= Cambarus laconensis |page= e.T164914A5937870 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T164914A5937870.en|access-date=5 February 2023}}

| status2 = G1

| status2_system = TNC

| status2_ref = {{cite web |title=Cambarus laconensis |url=https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.821665/Cambarus_laconensis |website=NatureServe Explorer An online encyclopedia of life |version=7.1|publisher=NatureServe|accessdate=5 February 2023}}

| genus = Cambarus

| species = laconensis

| authority = Buhay & Crandall, 2009{{cite journal| title=Taxonomic revision of cave crayfish in the genus Cambarus, subgenus Aviticambarus (Decapoda: Cambaridae) with descriptions of two new species, C. speleocoopi and C. laconensis, endemic to Alabama, U.S.A.| year=2009| last1=Buhay| first1=Jennifer E.| last2=Crandall| first2=Keith A. |author2-link= Keith A. Crandall| journal=Journal of Crustacean Biology| volume=29| pages=121–134| s2cid=83813422| doi=10.1651/08-3089.1| doi-access=free}}

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Cambarus laconensis, the Lacon Exit cave crayfish, is a small, freshwater crayfish endemic to northern Alabama in the United States. It is an underground species known only from a single cave along the southern border of the Highland Rim in the southern Appalachians.