Engaeus spinicaudatus
Scottsdale Burrowing Crayfish
Keith A. CrandallTypes
Holotype, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart G3228 (Male); allotype, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart G3229 (Female); paratypes, Museum of Victoria, Melbourne J14737 (Male), J14738 (Female), Talmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart G3230 (Female).Type Locality
Buttongrass plain at second crossing of Surveyors Creek after Scottsdale on Old Waterhouse Road, NE. Tasmania.Distribution
This species has only been found in buttongrass plains and flood plains surrounding or near Surveyors Creek, north of Scottsdale in north-east Tasmania.Habitat
Burrows of E. spinicaudatus were found in the peaty soils of a buttongrass plain and in the flood plain adjacent to the creek in type 2 habitat. The typical burrow of the species was with two entrances each descending to an approximate depth of 0.5 m where they converged, with a single tunnel then descending further to a slightly enlarged chamber terminally.References
Baillie, Jonathan, and Brian Groombridge. 1996. IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals.
Horwitz, Pierre. 1990. A Taxonomic Revision of Species in the Freshwater Crayfish Genus Engaeus Erichson (Decapoda: Parastacidae). Invertebr. Taxon., 1990, 4, 427-614.
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