White-clawed crayfish | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
Family: | Astacidae |
Genus: | Austropotamobius |
Species: | A. pallipes
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Binomial name | |
Austropotamobius pallipes (Lereboullet, 1858)
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Austropotamobius pallipes is an endangered[1] European freshwater crayfish, and the only crayfish native to the British Isles.[3] Its common names include white-clawed crayfish and Atlantic stream crayfish.