Cambarus speleocoopi

{{Short description|Species of crayfish}}

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| status = EN

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Buhay, J.|author2= Crandall, K.A. |author2-link= Keith A. Crandall |author3= Cordeiro, J. |name-list-style=amp |year= 2010 |title= Cambarus speleocoopi |page= e.T164915A5938003 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T164915A5938003.en |access-date=5 February 2023}}

| status2 = G2

| status2_system = TNC

| status2_ref = {{cite web |title=Cambarus speleocoopi |url=https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.821661/Cambarus_speleocoopi |website=NatureServe Explorer An online encyclopedia of life |version=7.1|publisher=NatureServe|accessdate=5 February 2023}}

| genus = Cambarus

| species = speleocoopi

| 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 speleocoopi, the Sweet Home Alabama cave crayfish, is a small, freshwater crayfish endemic to Marshall County, Alabama, in the United States. It is an underground species known only from four caves.

Distribution

The Alabama cave crayfish is known from cave systems in the Paint Rock River basin between Mount St. Olive and Cushion.

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