Orconectes australis
Species of crayfish
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Orconectes australis, the southern cave crayfish,[1][2] is a species of crayfish in the Cambaridae family found in Alabama and Tennessee.[3] Ages of 176 years have been claimed for O. australis, though this was reduced to ≤22 years in a 2012 study.[4]
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| Orconectes australis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Family: | Cambaridae |
| Genus: | Orconectes |
| Species: | O. australis |
| Binomial name | |
| Orconectes australis (Rhoades, 1941) | |
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