crayfish
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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
These ecosystem changes happen on a local scale, of course, but crayfish conservation and invasion mitigation have become bigger-picture challenges, often requiring transnational coordination.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 25, 2024
As with humans, crayfish and capybaras, if you look you’ll find the biochemical markers of the poor bees’ cognitive change.
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2024
The seashore teemed with no weeds, no crabs, no crayfish, no coral, no pebbles, no rocks.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
Nothing could be seen, however, but an unusual number of prawns or crayfishes, into which they supposed the infant had been changed.
From Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before by Turner, George
You can tuck up the sleeves, and we will catch crayfishes again.
From Abbe Mouret's Transgression by Zola, Émile
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
I afterward visited the locality several times, collecting specimens of the mounds and crayfishes, which are now in the United States National Museum, and making observations.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 by Various
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 Lucas, Frederic
