Thursday, May 5, 2011

Crayfish

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Subphylum: Crustacea

Class: Malacostraca

Order: Decapoda

Suborder: Pleocyemata

Infraorder: Astacidea

Superfamily: Astacoidea & Parastacoidea

Freshwater crustaceans that breathe through feather like gills, they are scavengers that live in the bottom of lakes, brooks, and streams. The body is made up of twenty segments making up the cephalothorax and the abdomen. The crayfish is usually 17.5 cm. the oldest fossil record of the crayfish dates back to the late Mesozoic .

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