{{Short description|Genus of crayfishes}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = | image_caption = | taxon = Virilastacus | type_species = ''Virilastacus araucanius'' | authority = Hobbs, 1991 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = 4, See text. }}
'''''Virilastacus''''' is a genus of freshwater burrowing crayfish species endemic to Chile. It has four described species. The first species was described in 1914, but since 2005, three other species have been added to this genus.<ref>{{Citation | last1 = Rudolph | first1 = Erich H. | last2 = Crandall | first2 = Keith A. | author-link2 = Keith A. Crandall | title = A new species of burrowing crayfish, Virilastacus jarai (Crustacea, Decapoda, Parastacidae) from central-southern Chile | journal = Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington | volume = 125 | issue = 3 | year = 2012 | pages = 258–275 | language = | doi=10.2988/11-39.1 | s2cid = 85033053 }}</ref><ref>{{Citation | last = | first = | title = Ficha de antecedentes de especie: Virilastacus araucanius | journal = | volume = | issue = | year = 2013 | pages = 1–6 | language = Spanish | publisher = Ministry of the Environment | url = http://www.mma.gob.cl/clasificacionespecies/fichas10proceso/Virilastacus_araucanius_RES_INICIO.pdf }}</ref>
==Species== *''Virilastacus araucanius'' <small>Faxon, 1914 </small> *''Virilastacus jarai'' <small>Erich H. Rudolph and Keith A. Crandall, 2012</small><ref>[http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.2988/11-39.1 "A new species of burrowing crayfish, Virilastacus jarai (Crustacea, Decapoda, Parastacidae) from central-southern Chile]"</ref> *''Virilastacus retamali'' <small>Erich H. Rudolph and Keith A. Crandall, 2007</small><ref>[http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1651/s-2681.1 "A New Species of Burrowing Crayfish Virilastacus Retamali (Decapoda: Parastacidae) from the Southern Chile Peatland"]</ref> *''Virilastacus rucapihuelensis'' <small>Rudolph and Crandall, 2005</small><ref>{{cite iucn|author=Buckup, L. |year= 2010 |title= ''Virilastacus rucapihuelensis'' |article-number= e.T153746A4539751 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T153746A4539751.en|access-date=27 February 2023}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
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Category:Parastacidae Category:Freshwater crustaceans of South America Category:Endemic fish of Chile Category:Edible crustaceans Category:Decapod genera Category:Taxa named by Horton H. Hobbs Jr.
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