crayfish
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Environmental specialist Peter Cunningham told AFP that potential sediment plumes could impact rocky shoreline habitats, crayfish spawning and breeding species.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
We see Adrian at the film’s beginning as a small child, catching crayfish and other underwater creatures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
But Bloomer also hopes the atlas will inspire members of the public to get curious about crayfish.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 25, 2024
Neither overfishing nor pollution, writes David Wilcove in his book The Condor’s Shadow, “has endangered as many species of fish, mussels, amphibians, and crayfish as has habitat destruction.”
From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2024
After an avocado salad lunch on the day Joe Mondragon first began to irrigate his beanfield, Ladd Devine’s starched and prissified personal secretary, Emerson Lapp, scuttled like a nervous crayfish into the Devines’ private den.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
They reached without incident the famous Grindstone Ford of Bayou Pierre, where crayfishes had destroyed a pioneer dam.
From The Paths of Inland Commerce; a chronicle of trail, road, and waterway by Archer Butler Hulbert
Small crayfishes are desirable to show locomotion in water.
From A Guide for the Study of Animals by Frederic Lucas
Name three in which they differ.How are crayfishes caught for market?
From A Guide for the Study of Animals by Frederic Lucas
The crayfishes would leave these little retreats whenever disturbed, and swim away down stream out of sight.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 by Various
Some of the living crayfishes should be established in conditions as natural as possible i.e. in an inch or so of fresh water, with rocks, weeds, etc., and left undisturbed.
From A Guide for the Study of Animals by Frederic Lucas
