Procambarus orcinus

[bgillespie82]

Does anyone have any information about Procambarus orcinus aka Woodville Karst Crayfish?

Diving the Wakulla area today I found one about 4 inches in length carrying eggs and now I'm interested in learning more about them. If I cant find info I may start to research them to gain some more knowledge on the critters in our systems.

Thanks
Ben

[Cantey]

probably not much more info than you already know, but this crayfish taxonomy site is pretty cool:

http://iz.carnegiemnh.org/crayfish/N...s=orcinus&ssp=

[bgillespie82]

Thanks for the info. Yes the site is vague and doesent provide a whole lot on them. Anyone else have any good suggestions/links?

[OFG-1]

Ben, I think this is what you are looking for.

http://gumbopages.com/food/seafood/craw-boil.html

[Kelly Jessop]

If I recall the 1985(?) edition of Bremleyana has something. Can't recall for sure which issue.

[NEON]

Ben, I think this is what you are looking for.

http://gumbopages.com/food/seafood/craw-boil.html

Some good recepies in there though!

[skip]

Nearly every cave system has a species of crayfish unique to that system. You can't fill in a sinkhole without killing off a bunch of them, but then with all the sinkholes around there's no way to know if you eliminated a species or a local population. Also, until the species finds its way on a government list, it officially does not exist. If you miss the townhall meeting, fail to mention the existence of a species to officials, etc., well, no one will ever know.

Development is filling in sinkholes every day - no telling how many in any one area, let alone a state. We've seen sinkholes filled in quite a bit around here - and we know they contain a species of cavefish that is unique to this area, on the "in need of management" list of the state and federal EPA. Yet still they fill em in....

I wrote a short article awhile back on cave crayfish - it was published in the NACD journal and it's posted on the NACD website. It includes a few references for further reading. Jennifer Buhay, a cave biologist (Indiana University; [email protected]), specializes in cave crayfish, send her an email.

I also have a couple of articles, but too long to attach to a pm. email me at [email protected] and I'll email what I have to you.

-skip

[willgr1]

http://www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancon.../SCTZ-0244.pdf

a report on the troglobitic decapods crustaceans.....it's a big file....pg 132 has info on the P. orcinus.

[bgillespie82]

Thanks Guys! If you come up with anything else let me know!

OFG.....Thinking of having a big Crawdaddy boil for one of the WCDC meetings in the near future. Thanks for the recipie! Of course the woodville karst crayfish isnt going to be on the menu

[Sludge]

Thinking of having a big Crawdaddy boil for one of the WCDC meetings in the near future.

I know where you can get a bunch of little white ones.







(Ooh, I get the feeling I'm going to pay for that one.)