# Cambarus laconensis

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Species of crayfish

Cambarus laconensis Conservation status Critically Endangered (IUCN 3.1)[1] Critically Imperiled (NatureServe)[2] Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Clade: Pancrustacea Class: Malacostraca Order: Decapoda Suborder: Pleocyemata Family: Cambaridae Genus: Cambarus Species: C. laconensis Binomial name Cambarus laconensis Buhay & Crandall, 2009[3]

***Cambarus laconensis***, the **Lacon Exit cave crayfish**,[1][2] is a small, freshwater [crayfish](/source/Crayfish) [endemic](/source/Endemism) to northern [Alabama](/source/Alabama) in the United States. It is an underground species known only from a single cave along the southern border of the [Highland Rim](/source/Highland_Rim) in the [southern Appalachians](/source/Appalachian_Mountains).[1]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-IUCN_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-IUCN_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-IUCN_1-2) [Crandall, K.A.](/source/Keith_A._Crandall) & Cordeiro, J. (2010). ["*Cambarus laconensis*"](https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/164914/5937870). *[IUCN Red List of Threatened Species](/source/IUCN_Red_List)*. **2010** e.T164914A5937870. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T164914A5937870.en](https://doi.org/10.2305%2FIUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T164914A5937870.en). Retrieved 5 February 2023.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-NatureServe_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-NatureServe_2-1) ["*Cambarus laconensis*"](https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.821665/Cambarus_laconensis). *NatureServe Explorer An online encyclopedia of life*. 7.1. NatureServe. Retrieved 5 February 2023.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Buhay, Jennifer E.; [Crandall, Keith A.](/source/Keith_A._Crandall) (2009). ["Taxonomic revision of cave crayfish in the genus *Cambarus*, subgenus *Aviticambarus* (Decapoda: Cambaridae) with descriptions of two new species, *C. speleocoopi* and *C. laconensis*, endemic to Alabama, U.S.A."](https://doi.org/10.1651%2F08-3089.1) *Journal of Crustacean Biology*. **29** (1): 121–134. [Bibcode](/source/Bibcode_(identifier)):[2009JCBio..29..121B](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009JCBio..29..121B). [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1651/08-3089.1](https://doi.org/10.1651%2F08-3089.1). [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [83813422](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:83813422).

Taxon identifiers Cambarus laconensis Wikidata: Q20085317 CoL: 7RTZZ GBIF: 5789993 iNaturalist: 96581 ITIS: 1133629 IUCN: 164914 NatureServe: 2.821665 NCBI: 375937 Open Tree of Life: 1083969 WoRMS: 885196

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