Cambarus tartarus

{{short description|Species of crayfish}}

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| image =

| status = CR

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Bergey, E. |author2=Cordeiro, J. |author3=Thoma, R.F. |name-list-style=amp |year=2010 |title=Cambarus tartarus |page=e.T3683A10020038 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T3683A10020038.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}

| status2 = G1

| status2_system = TNC

| status2_ref = {{cite web |title=Cambarus tartarus |url=https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.118123/Cambarus_tartarus |website=NatureServe Explorer An online encyclopedia of life |version=7.1|publisher=NatureServe|accessdate= 8 February 2023}}

| genus = Cambarus

| species = tartarus

| authority = Hobbs & M. R. Cooper, 1972

}}

Cambarus tartarus, the Oklahoma cave crayfish, is a species of crayfish in the family Cambaridae. It is endemic to two caves in Delaware County, Oklahoma in the United States.

The IUCN conservation status of Cambarus tartarus is "CR", critically endangered. The species faces an extremely high risk of extinction in the immediate future. The IUCN status was reviewed in 2010.

References

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{{Cite web| title=Cambarus tartarus Report

| url=https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=97410

| website=Integrated Taxonomic Information System

| access-date=2020-01-23

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{{Cite web| title=Cambarus tartarus

| url=https://www.gbif.org/species/2227402

| website=GBIF

| access-date=2020-01-23

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{{Cite web| title=Cambarus tartarus species Information

| url=https://bugguide.net/node/view/1232587

| website=BugGuide.net

| access-date=2020-01-23

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Further reading

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  • {{Cite journal

| title = An Illustrated Checklist of the American Crayfishes (Decapoda: Astacidae, Cambaridae, and Parastacidae)

| date = 1989

| last1 = Hobbs | first1 = Horton H. Jr.

| journal = Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology

| issue = 480

| pages = 1–236

| doi = 10.5479/si.00810282.480

| url = https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/5542/SCtZ-0480-Lo_res.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y

}}

  • {{Cite journal

| title = Zoogeography, taxonomy, and conservation of West Virginia's Ohio River floodplain crayfishes (Decapoda, Cambaridae)

| url = https://archive.org/details/pubmed-PMC3088040

| date = 2011

| last1 = Loughman | first1 = Z.

| last2 = Simon | first2 = T.

| journal = ZooKeys

| issue = 74| pages = [https://archive.org/details/pubmed-PMC3088040/page/n10 1]–78

| doi = 10.3897/zookeys.74.808

| pmc=3088040

| pmid=21594135

| bibcode = 2011ZooK...74....1L

| doi-access = free

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  • {{Cite journal

| title = Annotated checklist of decapod crustaceans of Atlantic coastal and continental shelf waters of the United States

| date = 2003

| last1 = Nizinski | first1 = Martha S.

| journal = Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington

| volume = 116| issue = 1| pages = 96–157

| issn = 0006-324X

| url = https://research.nhm.org/pdfs/12091/12091.pdf

}}

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Category:Cambaridae

Category:Cave crayfish

Category:Articles created by Qbugbot

Category:Crustaceans described in 1972

Category:Taxa named by Horton H. Hobbs Jr.

Category:Endemic fauna of Oklahoma

Category:Endemic crustaceans of the United States

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