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    Astacus astacus, the European crayfish, noble crayfish, or broad-fingered crayfish, is the most common species of crayfish in Europe, and a traditional...
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    internal phylogeny of Astacidae can be shown in the cladogram below: Astacus astacus (Linnaeus, 1775) - known as the "European crayfish", "noble crayfish"...
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  • later be founded opposite of Astacus. Astacus was a member of the Delian League. Strabo wrote that some time after Astacus was 'a colony of Megarians and...
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    distinguished most easily from the European or broad-fingered crayfish, Astacus astacus, by the relatively thinner "fingers" of the claws. Further studies...
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  • the name Astacus (Ancient Greek: Ἄστακος) may refer to: Astacus of Thebes, a descendant of the Spartoi, and the eponym of the city Astacus, characterized...
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    the species had been referred to by several different names, including Astacus marinus Fabricius, 1775 and Homarus vulgaris H. Milne-Edwards, 1837, and...
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    introduced to Europe in the 1960s to supplement the North European Astacus astacus fisheries, which were being damaged by crayfish plague, but the imports...
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  • Astacus or Astakos (Ancient Greek: Ἄστακος) was a town on the west coast of ancient Acarnania, on a bay, one side of which is formed by the promontory...
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    Herbst in 1792 as Cancer (Astacus) capensis. It was independently described in 1793 by Johan Christian Fabricius as Astacus flavus, possibly based on...
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    landowners is in Lake Vättern. The catch of domestic freshwater crayfish, Astacus astacus, and even of a transplanted American species, Pacifastacus leniusculus...
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