Marine Species Traits - Pontastacus leptodactylus (Eschscholtz, 1823)

WoRMS taxon details

Pontastacus leptodactylus (Eschscholtz, 1823)

AphiaID

885112 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:885112)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Pontastacus Bott, 1950

Original name

Astacus leptodactylus Eschscholtz, 1823

Synonymised names

Astacus (Pontastacus) leptodactylus Eschscholtz, 1823 · unaccepted > superseded combination

Astacus (Pontastacus) leptodactylus leptodactylus Eschscholtz, 1823 · unaccepted > superseded combination

Astacus angulosus Rathke, 1836 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Astacus leptodactylus Eschscholtz, 1823 · unaccepted > superseded combination

Astacus leptodactylus boreoorientalis Birstein & Vinogradov, 1934 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Pontastacus leptodactylus leptodactylus (Eschscholtz, 1823) · unaccepted > superseded rank

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Subspecies Pontastacus leptodactylus leptodactylus (Eschscholtz, 1823) accepted as Pontastacus leptodactylus (Eschscholtz, 1823) (unaccepted > superseded rank)

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Astacus leptodactylus Eschscholtz, 1823) Eschscholtz, F. F. (1823). Descriptio novae Astacorum speciei Rossicae. Memoires de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes du Moscu. 6: 109-110, pl. 18. [details]

Taxonomic citation

DecaNet eds. (2025). DecaNet. Pontastacus leptodactylus (Eschscholtz, 1823). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=885112 on 2025-06-10

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2016-09-19 12:37:05Z

created

Crandall, Keith A.

2016-09-20 08:46:37Z

changed

Crandall, Keith A.

2017-06-12 21:16:47Z

changed

Crandall, Keith A.

2021-01-21 13:36:43Z

changed

De Grave, Sammy

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Astacus leptodactylus Eschscholtz, 1823) Eschscholtz, F. F. (1823). Descriptio novae Astacorum speciei Rossicae. Memoires de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes du Moscu. 6: 109-110, pl. 18. [details]

original description (of Astacus angulosus Rathke, 1836) Rathke, H. (1836). Zur Fauna der Krym. [On the Fauna of Crimea]. Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint Pétersbourg. 3(3-4): 291-454, pls. 1-10 [imprint 1837; preprint dated 1836]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/11609#/summary [details]

original description (of Astacus leptodactylus boreoorientalis Birstein & Vinogradov, 1934) Birstein, J. A.; Vinogradov, L. G. (1934). Die Süsswasserdecapoden der USSR und ihre geographische Verbreitung [in Russian]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal. 13, 39-70. [details] Available for editors

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basis of record Crandall, K.A.; De Grave, S. (2017). An updated classification of the freshwater crayfishes (Decapoda: Astacidea) of the world, with a complete species list. Journal of Crustacean Biology. 37: 615-653. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/jcbiol/rux070 [details] Available for editors

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Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

Language	Name
English	long-clawed crayfish [from synonym]	[details]
German	Sumpfkrebs [from synonym]Galizier [from synonym]	[details]

To Barcode of Life (182 barcodes) (from synonym Astacus leptodactylus Eschscholtz, 1823)
To Barcode of Life (65 barcodes)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Astacus leptodactylus) (from synonym Astacus leptodactylus Eschscholtz, 1823)
To GenBank (115261 nucleotides; 283 proteins) (from synonym Astacus (Pontastacus) leptodactylus Eschscholtz, 1823)
To GenBank (115261 nucleotides; 283 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record) (from synonym Astacus leptodactylus Eschscholtz, 1823)