Crayfish of the World A Comprehensive Guide

About this book

This hardbound special issue of Fish Magazine Taiwan is dedicated to the world's freshwater crayfish fauna and serves as a comprehensive "crayfish catalogue", offering the most essential facts about each species. It provides all enthusiasts, from laymen to specialists, with a systematic overview of this group of crustaceans, capturing the diversity in colour, forms, life strategies, and behavioural patterns.

This book is the fruit of many years of compiling and collating all available information about the world's crayfish species from many scattered sources. By drawing on a network of colleagues and crayfish workers worldwide, the authors were able to collect high-quality illustrations of almost all of the approximately 750 different species known to science. In travelling to locate, document, and photograph species for which no information was available, they discovered a number of new species that are described here for the first time.

Contents

1. Distribution and Origins   6
2. Anatomy   16
3. Reproduction   26
4. Growth, Molting & Feeding   40
5. Behaviour   50
6. Diseases, Parasites & Symbionts   56
7. Crayfish in the Aquarium   72
8. Tank and Pond Bread   82
9. Coloration   94
10. List of Describes Species   102
11. Crayfish of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and Honduras   110
12. Crayfish of Cuba   130
13. Crayfish from East Asia   134
14. Crayfish of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea   138
15. Crayfish from Madagascar   202
16. Crayfish from Europe & Introduced Species   218
17. South American Crayfish   232
18. Crayfish from Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania   246
19. Crayfish from the USA & Canada   318
20. Index   483

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