Cherax: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Decapoda
- Family
- Parastacidae
- Genus
- Cherax
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Cherax
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Cherax
Cherax, commonly known as yabby/yabbies in Australia, is the most widespread genus of fully aquatic crayfish in the Southern Hemisphere. Various species of cherax may be found in both still and flowing bodies of freshwater across most of Australia and New Guinea. Together with Euastacus, it is also the largest crayfish genus in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Cherax acherontis
- Cherax albertisii
- Cherax albidus
- Cherax alyciae
- Cherax austini
- Cherax barretti
- Cherax bicarinatus
- Cherax boesemani
- Cherax boschmai
- Cherax buitendijkae
- Cherax cainii
- Cherax cairnsensis
- Cherax cartalacoolah
- Cherax cid
- Cherax communis
- Cherax crassimanus
- Cherax cuspidatus
- Cherax depressus
- Cherax destructor
- Cherax dispar
- Cherax gherardii
- Cherax glaber
- Cherax gladstonensis
- Cherax holthuisi
- Cherax latimanus
- Cherax leckii
- Cherax longipes
- Cherax lorentzi
- Cherax minor
- Cherax misolicus
- Cherax monticola
- Cherax mosessalossa
- Cherax murido
- Cherax neopunctatus
- Cherax nucifraga
- Cherax pallidus
- Cherax paniaicus
- Cherax papuanus
- Cherax parvus
- Cherax peknyi
- Cherax plebejus
- Cherax preissii
- Cherax pulcher
- Cherax punctatus
- Cherax quadricarinatus
- Cherax quinquecarinatus
- Cherax rhynchotus
- Cherax robustus
- Cherax rotundus
- Cherax setosus
- Cherax snowden
- Cherax solus
- Cherax tenuimanus
- Cherax urospinosus
- Cherax wagenknechtae
- Cherax warsamsonicus
- Cherax wasselli































































































































































