# Cambarus tartarus

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Species of crayfish

Cambarus tartarus 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. tartarus Binomial name Cambarus tartarus Hobbs & M. R. Cooper, 1972

***Cambarus tartarus***, the **Oklahoma cave crayfish**,[1][2] is a species of [crayfish](/source/Crayfish) in the family [Cambaridae](/source/Cambaridae). It is [endemic](/source/Endemism) to two caves in [Delaware County, Oklahoma](/source/Delaware_County%2C_Oklahoma) in the United States.[3][4][1][5]

The [IUCN](/source/IUCN) conservation status of *Cambarus tartarus* is "CR", critically endangered. The species faces an extremely high risk of extinction in the immediate future. The IUCN status was reviewed in 2010.[1]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-IUCN_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-IUCN_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-IUCN_1-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-IUCN_1-3) Bergey, E.; Cordeiro, J. & Thoma, R.F. (2010). ["*Cambarus tartarus*"](https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/3683/10020038). *[IUCN Red List of Threatened Species](/source/IUCN_Red_List)*. **2010** e.T3683A10020038. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T3683A10020038.en](https://doi.org/10.2305%2FIUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T3683A10020038.en). Retrieved 12 November 2021.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-NatureServe_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-NatureServe_2-1) ["*Cambarus tartarus*"](https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.118123/Cambarus_tartarus). *NatureServe Explorer An online encyclopedia of life*. 7.1. NatureServe. Retrieved 8 February 2023.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-itis_3-0)** ["*Cambarus tartarus* Report"](https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=97410). *Integrated Taxonomic Information System*. Retrieved 2020-01-23.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-gbif_4-0)** ["*Cambarus tartarus*"](https://www.gbif.org/species/2227402). *GBIF*. Retrieved 2020-01-23.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-bugguide_5-0)** ["*Cambarus tartarus* species Information"](https://bugguide.net/node/view/1232587). *BugGuide.net*. Retrieved 2020-01-23.

## Further reading

- Hobbs, Horton H. Jr. (1989). ["An Illustrated Checklist of the American Crayfishes (Decapoda: Astacidae, Cambaridae, and Parastacidae)"](https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/5542/SCtZ-0480-Lo_res.pdf?sequence=2&isAllowed=y) (PDF). *Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology* (480): 1–236. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.5479/si.00810282.480](https://doi.org/10.5479%2Fsi.00810282.480).

- Loughman, Z.; Simon, T. (2011). ["Zoogeography, taxonomy, and conservation of West Virginia's Ohio River floodplain crayfishes (Decapoda, Cambaridae)"](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3088040). *ZooKeys* (74): [1](https://archive.org/details/pubmed-PMC3088040/page/n10)–78. [Bibcode](/source/Bibcode_(identifier)):[2011ZooK...74....1L](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011ZooK...74....1L). [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.3897/zookeys.74.808](https://doi.org/10.3897%2Fzookeys.74.808). [PMC](/source/PMC_(identifier)) [3088040](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3088040). [PMID](/source/PMID_(identifier)) [21594135](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21594135).

- Nizinski, Martha S. (2003). ["Annotated checklist of decapod crustaceans of Atlantic coastal and continental shelf waters of the United States"](https://research.nhm.org/pdfs/12091/12091.pdf) (PDF). *Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington*. **116** (1): 96–157. [ISSN](/source/ISSN_(identifier)) [0006-324X](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0006-324X).

Taxon identifiers Cambarus tartarus Wikidata: Q4470884 BOLD: 668722 BugGuide: 1232587 CoL: 7RV5M EoL: 314705 GBIF: 2227402 iNaturalist: 96617 IRMNG: 10769644 ITIS: 97410 IUCN: 3683 NatureServe: 2.118123 NCBI: 1240935 Open Tree of Life: 791225 SeaLifeBase: 26309 WoRMS: 885237

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