Cambarus smilax

{{Short description|Species of crayfish}}

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| status = G2

| status_system = TNC

| status_ref = {{cite web |title=Cambarus smilax |url=https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.907126/Cambarus_smilax |website=NatureServe Explorer An online encyclopedia of life |version=7.1|publisher=NatureServe|accessdate=27 November 2022}}

| genus = Cambarus

| species = smilax

| authority = (Loughman, Simon, and Welch, 2011)

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Cambarus smilax, the Greenbrier crayfish, is a crayfish in the order Decapoda, family Cambaridae, genus Cambarus. It is most closely related to Cambarus robustus. It is endemic to the Greenbrier River watershed in Pocahontas, Greenbrier, and Monroe counties in West Virginia. It gets its common name from the Greenbrier River. It was described as a new crayfish species in 2011.{{cite journal|last1=Loughman|first1=Zachary J.|last2=Simon|first2=Thomas P.|last3=Welsh|first3=Stuart A.|title=Cambarus (Puncticambarus) smilax, a new species of crayfish (Crustacea: Decapoda: Cambaridae) from the Greenbrier River basin of West Virginia|journal=Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington|date=2 August 2011|volume=124|issue=2|pages=99–111|doi=10.2988/10-09.1|s2cid=84877767 }}