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
The River Lugg is home to six protected and endangered species, including common otter, Atlantic salmon, white clawed crayfish, brook lamprey, shad and bullhead.
From BBC ● May 26, 2026
"About a third of crayfish are thought to be threatened or endangered, but for another 20-ish percent, we don't have the data available to even assess what their conservation status should be."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 25, 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
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Upon what do you base your answer?Name two points in which earthworms and crayfishes are alike.
From A Guide for the Study of Animals by Frederic Lucas
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
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
In South America crayfishes are found in southern Brazil, Argentina and Chile.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various
To summarize your study, write a connected account of the relations of crayfishes to their environments, under the following topics:—
From A Guide for the Study of Animals by Frederic Lucas