crayfish

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Crayfish covered in this film tried to escape up the sides of the steep riverbank, while the occasional live fish jumped out of the water or flailed near its surface, gasping.

From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2023

Crayfish and other invertebrates play important roles in their ecosystems, so anything affecting them can cascade throughout a habitat.

From Salon • Aug. 17, 2021

Crayfish Bob describes how they travel the country using the waterways, by hanging on to barges.

From The Guardian • Aug. 31, 2017

Crayfish in irrigation ditches supplemented seafood from the coast.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

This showed that the Wise Old Crayfish had been well brought up, and knew he should not say unpleasant things about people if he could help it.

From Among the Pond People by Pierson, Clara Dillingham