Cherax dispar
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| Cherax dispar | |
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| A specimen in Larapinta, Queensland | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Family: | Parastacidae |
| Genus: | Cherax |
| Species: | C. dispar |
| Binomial name | |
| Cherax dispar Riek, 1951 | |
Cherax dispar, the slender crayfish, is a species of parastacid crustacean found in eastern Australia.
Cherax dispar was discovered and scientifically described by Edgar F. Riek in 1951. Riek described the species based on not one but two thousand specimens; he gave the species' type locality as Moorooka, Queensland. The male holotype specimen, the female allotype, and several paratypes were then stored in the collections of the Australian Museum.[2] Cherax dispar is colloquially known as the "slender crayfish".[3]
In the same paper, Riek described two subspecies of Cherax dispar, which he called C. dispar elongatus and C. dispar crassus, also found in Queensland, with the holotypes and other specimens also being kept in the Australian Museum.[2]