Cambarus speleocoopi, the Sweet Home Alabama cave crayfish,[1][2] is a small, freshwater crayfish endemic to Marshall County, Alabama, in the United States. It is an underground species known only from four caves.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Pleocyemata |
| Family: | Cambaridae |
| Genus: | Cambarus |
| Species: | C. speleocoopi
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| Binomial name | |
| Cambarus speleocoopi Buhay & Crandall, 2009[3]
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Distribution
editThe Alabama cave crayfish is known from cave systems in the Paint Rock River basin between Mount St. Olive and Cushion.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c Buhay, J.; Crandall, K.A. & Cordeiro, J. (2010). "Cambarus speleocoopi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T164915A5938003. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T164915A5938003.en. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
- ^ a b "Cambarus speleocoopi". NatureServe Explorer An online encyclopedia of life. 7.1. NatureServe. Retrieved 5 February 2023.
- ^ Buhay, Jennifer E.; Crandall, Keith A. (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." Journal of Crustacean Biology. 29: 121–134. doi:10.1651/08-3089.1. S2CID 83813422.
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