{{Short description|Genus of crayfishes}} {{Automatic_taxobox | image = Steinkrebs1.jpg | image_caption = ''Austropotamobius torrentium'' | fossil_range = {{fossil_range|Barremian|Recent}} | taxon = Austropotamobius | authority = Skorikow, 1907 | type_species = ''Cancer torrentium'' | type_species_authority = Schrank, 1803 }}
'''''Austropotamobius''''' is a genus of European crayfish in the family Astacidae. It contains four extant species,<ref>{{Cite journal |first1=Keith A |last1=Crandall |first2=Sammy |last2=De Grave |date=2017 |title=''An updated classification of the freshwater crayfishes (Decapoda: Astacidea) of the world, with a complete species list'' |journal=Journal of Crustacean Biology |volume=37 |issue=5 |pp=615–653 |doi=10.1093/jcbiol/rux070|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Pârvulescu|first=Lucian|date=2019|title=Introducing a new Austropotamobius crayfish species (Crustacea, Decapoda, Astacidae): A Miocene endemism of the Apuseni Mountains, Romania|journal=Zoologischer Anzeiger|language=en|volume=279|pages=94–102|doi=10.1016/j.jcz.2019.01.006}}</ref>
{{Linked species list | Austropotamobius bihariensis | Pârvulescu 2019<ref name=":0" /> — Idle crayfish | Austropotamobius fulcisianus| (Ninni, 1886) | Austropotamobius pallipes | (Lereboullet, 1858) — White-clawed crayfish | Austropotamobius torrentium | (Schrank, 1803) — Stone crayfish | ''Austropotamobius llopisi'' ? | (Via, 1971) † Las Hoyas (Cuenca prov.), and El Montsec (Lleida prov.), Spain, Early Cretaceous (Barremian) (placement in the genus has been questioned<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Audo |first=Denis |last2=Hasiotis |first2=Stephen T |last3=Kawai |first3=Tadashi |date=2023-12-01 |title=Diversity and evolutionary history of fossil crayfishes |url=https://academic.oup.com/jcb/article/doi/10.1093/jcbiol/ruad079/7504443 |journal=Journal of Crustacean Biology |language=en |volume=43 |issue=4 |doi=10.1093/jcbiol/ruad079 |issn=0278-0372|url-access=subscription }}</ref>) }}
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Category:Astacidae Category:Decapod genera Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Category:Extant Barremian first appearances
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