Procambarus (Girardiella) cometes
Mississippi Flatwoods Crayfish
Keith A. Crandall, James W. Fetzner, Jr., and Horton H. Hobbs, Jr.Types
Holotype, allotype, and morphotype, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. 130227, 146260, 131280 (male I, female, male II); paratypes, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.Type Locality
Field behind Luxury Mobile Homes (SW 1/4 Sec. 3, T. 18N, R. 14E), Starkville, Oktibbeha County, Mississippi.References
Baillie, Jonathan, and Brian Groombridge. 1996. IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals.
Fitzpatrick, Joseph F., Jr. 1978. Systematics of the Crawfishes of the Hagenianus Group of the Genus Procambarus, Subgenus Girardiella (Decapoda, Cambaridae). Tulane Studies in Zoology and Botany, 20(3-4): 57-97, figures 1-121.
Hobbs, H. H. Jr. 1989. An Illustrated Checklist of the American Crayfishes (Decapoda: Astacidae, Cambaridae, and Parastacidae). Smithsonian Institution Press.
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Keith A. Crandall
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA
James W. Fetzner, Jr.
Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Horton H. Hobbs, Jr.
Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio, USA
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