engleski

Freshwater crayfish in Croatia

Freshwater crayfish of the family Astacidae (phyllum Arthropoda, order Decapoda) are represented with more than 540 species in Europe and four of them are indigenous in Croatia: Astacus astacus (Linnaeus, 1758) or noble crayfish, Astacus leptodactylus (Eschscholtz, 1823), Austropotamobius torrentium (Schrank, 1803) or stone crayfish and Austropotamobius pallipes (Lereboullet, 1858) or white-clawed crayfish. Three species (noble, stone and white-clawed crayfish) are listed in the IUCN Red List of Threatenes Species as vulnerable (VU) and are protected by the Croatian law ; the Law of Nature Conservation and the Rule Book on Protection of Crayfish. Also, the presence of one nonindigenous species (Orconectes limosus) was confirmed in marshes of the Nature Park Kopački rit, Croatia.

freshwater crayfish

nije evidentirano