Procambarus pictus | |
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Conservation status | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Crustacea |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Decapoda |
Family: | Cambaridae |
Genus: | Procambarus |
Subgenus: | P. (Ortmannicus) |
Species: | P. pictus |
Binomial name | |
Procambarus pictus (Hobbs, 1940) [1] |
Procambarus pictus, sometimes called the Black Creek crayfish or spotted royal crayfish, is a species of crayfish in family Cambaridae. It is endemic to Florida, where it is found in the Black Creek river system, the St. Johns River, and the upper Etoniah Creek.[2]