Species: Procambarus acutus
White River Crawfish
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Ecology and Life History
Food Comments
Opportunistic; immature forms perhaps more so. Whole body lipid content of females sampled from culture ponds found to be significantly greater than males with the proportion of lipids in adults varying through the culture cycle with the lowest lipid levels occurring in crayfish sampled after pond reflooding (Eversole et al., 1999).
Reproduction Comments
Amplexus in fall and early winter; brood in spring; one generation per year. In North Carolina, Form I male was collected late June from Price Lake and five Form I males in late July from the native North Carolina range in 24C (Simmons and Fraley, 2010).
Distribution
Global Range
H - >2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles) - H - Complete and accurate range is ambivalent because of taxonomic confusions and widespread introductions; it probably was originally from the Tombigbee basin, northeast along coastal plain and piedmont to New England but absent from north of Boston (1 record) and central and western Connecticut (Smith, 1982; 2000). According to Hubbs (1989), it ranges from Maine to the Florida panhandle west to Texas and north to Minnesota. It has been introduced by aquaculturists in many places. The subspecies <i>cuevachicae </i>known from San Luis Potosi, Mexico (Moles and Tistler, 1995).
Global Range Code
H
Global Range Description
>2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles)